The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us - Couverture rigide

Lennon, John J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1250858240 ISBN 13 : 9781250858245

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2025

Synopsis

In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he’s a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all. The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered the New York prison system with a sentence of 28 years to life. Later, he stepped into a writing workshop at Attica, and his whole life changed. Drawing on first-person reporting from the cell block and the prison yard, Lennon challenges our obsession with true crime by telling the full lives of men who have killed. These men have completely different backgrounds and stories — Robert Chambers, a preppy Manhattanite turned true crime celebrity; Milton E. Jones, a burglar coaxed into something far darker; and Michael Shane Hale, a gay man caught in a crime of passion — and all are searching to find meaning and redemption behind bars. Lennon’s reporting is intertwined with his own story, from a young man seduced by the infamous gangster culture of New York City to a celebrated prison journalist. The same desire echoes throughout the lives of these four men: to become more than murderers. In this first of its kind book of immersive prison journalism, The Tragedy of True Crime poses fundamental questions about the stories we tell and who gets to tell them. What essential truth do we lose when we don’t consider all that comes before an act of unthinkable violence? And what happens to the convicted after the cell gate locks?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John J. Lennon is a prison journalist in Sullivan Correctional Facility in New York, where he has been incarcerated for 23 years. After entering the prison system at age 24 with a ninth-grade education, he started his career in a creative writing workshop at Attica. Lennon has published major features about gun control, prison reform and rehabilitation, mental illness behind bars, day-to-day life in prison, and the pandemic experience while incarcerated. He was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in 2019 and 2024, and his essay “The Apology Letter” was featured in the Washington Post Magazine’s special prison issue, which won a National Magazine Award in 2020. Lennon has received fellowships from Galaxy Gives and Haymarket Books/The Mellon Foundation, and his work frequently appears in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the New York Review of Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250858240
• ISBN 13: 9781250858245
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne