Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Samuel Barlow
Writer Samuel Barlow talks with Cullen Thomas in the prison where he was held for half a century.
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Join NOW!Writer Samuel Barlow talks with Cullen Thomas in the prison where he was held for half a century.
...moreIt felt like the sun beating down on closed eyelids.
...more“The devil has made a fool of you, but do you know Wisdom is at work, too?”
...moreWere they all just kittens, really, the comfort of their warm blood the only defense between life and a dump in the river?
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...moreEveryone around us is speaking Russian, and I feel like we are in Russia, the old one, before the wall came down. For a moment, I even feel like I belong.
...moreWhen I’m away touring, my clothes are my connection to home, my way of feeling myself.
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...moreI wondered if he understood my joke, or its evasion, but surely he knew a used-car salesman always fudged his story. In fact, the car had been in my possession all of three weeks. Also, it didn’t exactly belong to me.
...moreI am trying to make sense of myself as much as the place. It is so easy to conflate ‘where I was from’ with ‘who I was there.’
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