#3: Reading Lolita in Maximum Security Prison
How do you run a literature course for convicts, and what do a headless chicken and Pinochet have in common? Mikita Brottman discusses her new book, The Maximum Security Book Club; Idra Novey reads a short story; and we venture underground to check out what's happening to the abandoned streetcar tunnels under Washington, D.C.
Mentioned in this episode:\u2022 Idra Novey\u2019s short story, \u201cUnder the Lid\u201d\u2022 Our original coverage of the Dupont Underground\u2022 Mikita Brottman\u2019s essay, \u201cJane Austen\u2019s Ivory Cage\u201d
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