Corrections In Ink

Author : Keri Blakinger
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250272867

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Corrections in Ink by Keri Blakinger Pdf

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and relevant.” —The New York Times An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey—from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom—and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice. For the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell. Then, on a cold day during her senior year, the police caught her walking down the street with a Tupperware full of heroin. Her arrest made the front page of the local news and landed her behind bars for nearly two years. There, in the Twilight Zone of New York’s jails and prisons, Keri grappled with the wreckage of her missteps and mistakes as she sobered up and searched for a better path. Along the way, she met women from all walks of life—who were all struggling through the same upside-down world of corrections. As the days ticked by, Keri came to understand how broken the justice system is and who that brokenness hurts the most. After she walked out of her cell for the last time, Keri became a reporter dedicated to exposing our flawed prisons as only an insider could. Written with searing intensity, unflinching honesty, and shocks of humor, Corrections in Ink uncovers that dark, brutal system that affects us all. Not just a story about getting out and getting off drugs, this galvanizing memoir is about the power of second chances; about who our society throws away and who we allow to reach for redemption—and how they reach for it.

Author : Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fathers
ISBN : 0618329706

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Pdf

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.

Author : Keri BLAKINGER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785789384

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Corrections in Ink by Keri BLAKINGER Pdf

Author : Elvis Costello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399167256

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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello Pdf

A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.

Author : Philip Hensher
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Penmanship
ISBN : 1447221699

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The Missing Ink by Philip Hensher Pdf

When Philip Hensher realized that he didn't know what a close friend's handwriting looked like, he felt that something essential was missing from their friendship. But does it really matter that typing and texting have largely taken the place of passionate love letters, secret diary entries and postcards home? From the crucial role of handwriting in a child's development, to the novels of Dickens and Proust - and whether a person's writing really reveals their true personality - The Missing Ink goes in search of the stories and characters that have shaped our handwriting, and how it in turn has shaped us.

Author : Kenneth Neill Cameron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1970-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674806115

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Shelly and His Circle by Kenneth Neill Cameron Pdf

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781632898234

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Blood and Ink by Stephen Davies Pdf

Part thriller, part love story, this contemporary YA novel is based on true-to-life events in Mali in 2012 and centers around the power of individuals to take a stand against terrorism. Kadi is the 15-year-old daughter of a librarian in modern-day Timbuktu. Ali is the son of shepherds and has been conscripted by the Defenders of Faith, an arm of Al Qaeda. When these two teens meet, it's hate at first sight. Forced together by a series of tumultous events, their feelings slowly but persistently turn into something more, causing Kadi to let her guard down and Ali to discover her family's secret hiding place for the manuscripts her family is tasked with safeguarding. Kadi undertakes a dangerous operation to smuggle the manuscripts out of the city, while Ali and his military commander are soon in pursuit. Ali's loyalties will never be more in question than when Kadi's life is in danger.

Author : Shane Bauer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780735223592

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American Prison by Shane Bauer Pdf

An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.

Author : Alice Broadway
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781338197006

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Ink by Alice Broadway Pdf

A deliciously dark, gorgeously written YA mystery that'll prickle your skin . . . and leave a permanent mark. There are no secrets in Saintstone.From the second you're born, every achievement, every failing, every significant moment are all immortalized on your skin. There are honorable marks that let people know you're trustworthy. And shameful tattoos that announce you as a traitor. After her father dies, Leora finds solace in the fact that his skin tells a wonderful story. That is, until she glimpses a mark on the back of his neck . . . the symbol of the worst crime a person can commit in Saintstone. Leora knows it has to be a mistake, but before she can do anything about it, the horrifying secret gets out, jeopardizing her father's legacy . . . and Leora's life.In her startlingly prescient debut, Alice Broadway shines a light on the dangerous lengths we go to make our world feel orderly--even when the truth refuses to stay within the lines. This rich, lyrical fantasy with echoes of Orwell is unlike anything you've ever read, a tale guaranteed to get under your skin . . .

Author : Lena Coakley
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781443416610

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Worlds Of Ink And Shadow by Lena Coakley Pdf

The Bronte siblings—Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne—find escape from their constrained lives via their rich imaginations. The glittering world of Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy world of Gondal literally come to life under their pens, offering the sort of romance and intrigue missing from their isolated parsonage home. But at what price? As Branwell begins to descend into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as the characters they have created—the brooding Rogue and dashing Duke of Zamorna—refuse to let them go. Gorgeously written and based on the Brontes’ juvenilia, Worlds of Ink and Shadow brings to life one of history’s most celebrated literary families in a thrilling, suspenseful fantasy.

Author : Wayne R Hall
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798838177629

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Short Notes On Corrections in Ink by Wayne R Hall Pdf

DISCLAIMER: This is not a replacement of the book 'Corrections in Ink' by Keri Blakinger, nor is it endorsed by the author. It is rather a brief, yet contextual summary of the contents of the book in details by independent publisher Wayne R. Hall. ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK Corrections in Ink is an explosive and fascinating memoir of a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, through addiction and a jail sentence, to the newsroom-emerging with a determined ambition to expose the dysfunctional system she encountered. An exceptional, competitive figure skater growing up, Keri Blakinger devoted herself to the sport, even participating in nationals. But when her skating relationship ended unexpectedly, her life collapsed. With all the passion she reserved for the ice, she dived into self-destruction. From her first taste of heroin, the following nine years would be a blur-living on the streets, hunting for a vein, selling drugs and sex, finally diving over a bridge when it all got too much, all while attempting to pull herself together enough to complete her degree at Cornell. Then, on a frigid day during Keri's senior year, the cops stopped her. Caught with a Tupperware container full of heroin, she was detained and led into a holding cell, a county jail, and eventually into a state prison. There, in the brutal "upside down," Keri observed callous circumstances and met women from all walks of life-people who would alter Keri forever Not merely a narrative about getting out and getting off drugs, this fascinating memoir is about seeking atonement inside oneself, as well as from the outside world, and the power of second chances. Written in a scorching voice, Corrections in Ink is presented with uncompromising honesty and jolts of irreverent humor, it unveils a dark and harsh system that touches us all.

Author : Keri Blakinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785788698

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Corrections in Ink by Keri Blakinger Pdf

An electric memoir that follows a young woman from chasing Olympic dreams on the ice rink, through addiction and prison, to finally discovering her voice as a journalist.

Author : PEN America
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642596779

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The Sentences That Create Us by PEN America Pdf

The Sentences That Create Us draws from the unique insights of over fifty justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer inspiration and resources for creating a literary life in prison. Centering in the philosophy that writers in prison can be as vibrant and capable as writers on the outside, and have much to offer readers everywhere, The Sentences That Create Us aims to propel writers in prison to launch their work into the world beyond the walls, while also embracing and supporting the creative community within the walls. The Sentences That Create Us is a comprehensive resource writers can grow with, beginning with the foundations of creative writing. A roster of impressive contributors including Reginald Dwayne Betts (Felon: Poems), Mitchell S. Jackson (Survival Math), Wilbert Rideau (In the Place of Justice) and Piper Kerman (Orange is the New Black), among many others, address working within and around the severe institutional, emotional, psychological and physical limitations of writing prison through compelling first-person narratives. The book’s authors offer pragmatic advice on editing techniques, pathways to publication, writing routines, launching incarcerated-run prison publications and writing groups, lesson plans from prison educators and next-step resources. Threaded throughout the book is the running theme of addressing lived trauma in writing, and writing’s capacity to support an authentic healing journey centered in accountability and restoration. While written towards people in the justice system, this book can serve anyone seeking hard won lessons and inspiration for their own creative—and human—journey.

Author : Elske Rahill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786691033

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In White Ink by Elske Rahill Pdf

Motherhood, nurture and violence – these are the themes of Elske Rahill's remarkable first collection, In White Ink. Rahill brings to life the psychological and physical reality of mothering, pregnancy and childbirth in ways that few others writers have attempted. Here is a biting realism, in the relations between men and women and in the expectations and failures of their assigned roles. Each story is illumined by moments of harsh poetry. They are carefully crafted snapshots of our condition. In the title story, an isolated young mother is locked in to a custody battle with her abusive husband; 'Right to Reply' shows three generations of women confronting the terrible legacy of their family's past; in 'Toby', a woman obsessed with hygiene finally snaps, when she finds her home is infested with fleas. The precision of Rahill's prose, the stoicism of her unflinching narrative gaze, reveal characters caught up in violently emotional situations. The version of motherhood found here is painful. Yet its endurance, as nature's greatest force, is brilliantly and compassionately rendered.

Author : Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:590457515

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An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere, Folio, 1632 by Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton Pdf

A refutation of John Payne Collier's controversial 'Perkins folio' of Shakespeare, informed by the British Museum's research and finding that the emendations claimed by Collier to be in a mid-seventeenth-century hand were actually 19th-century forgeries.