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The Maximum Security Book Club

Professor MikitaBrottman is a psychoanalyst, cultural critic and Oxford-educated scholar of the humanities. She’d had the experience of teaching smart, well-prepared students at MICA … but what would it be like to share books she loved with men convicted of serious crimes, and serving time for them at Jessup Correctional Institute? She tells what it’s like in her new book, "The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison." In this hour we talk to Brottman about what the experience meant. We ask what surprised her about the men and the workings of the prison, and how their discussions changed her view of literature. And we’ll meet one of her readers, now free. 

Mikita Brottman will discuss her book on Wednesday, June 15 from 6:30pm to 8pm at the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 415 Park Ave., Baltimore, MD, 21201.

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