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Unique! Imagine for a minute a talented American journalist incarcerated, doing time at Sing Sing Correctional facility. Now take that individual and allow him to interview fellow prisoners and glimpse into their mind, their past, their crime, and you have the foundation for The Tragedy of True Crime.
Author Lennon takes us “behind the scenes” in a debut non-fiction book. The author was convicted of killing a man in Brooklyn in 2001. He describes the event in incredible detail.
Now let us move on to the two prisoners that schemed to knock on the door of a parish church, chat with the priest, and then proceed to stab to death Rev. A. Joseph Bissonette, 55 years old. The priest’s sock was stuffed into his mouth so he could not utter a word. Or Monsignor David Herlihy, that the same prisoners murdered in the rectory of St. Matthew’s Church in…
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…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Mental health is a topic that remains front and center. Are you interested in a journey, which is a personal venture, through the mental health infrastructure that we have today? Psychiatric assessment including hospitalization is shared with the audience.
The memoir reflects the author as a bright student, attending and graduating from Harvard University. Her psychiatric assessment began when she was 13 years old. Tentative diagnosis of bipolar with resultant prescription of mood stabilizers, antidepressants, etc., was the modus operandi.
Ms. Delano was ascribed a number of diagnoses, i.e., depression, anxiety, eating disorder, borderline personality, and bipolar. She was aggressive with her own management and would stop all meds of her own volition. The results were “interesting” to say the least.
We are exposed to what it means to be ascribed a title of “mentally ill” and what does that encompass? We are entitled to rethink how effective these meds…
