Podcasts and Damnation Island
Concidentally, I am on two podcasts this week talking about my book Damnation Island. Philip Yanos, Ph.D., the author of excellent and important book, Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward’s Island, has started a podcast which focuses on stories of banishment. I am the guest in the current episode! From my blurb for Yanos’s great book: “A riveting look at the untold history of the treatment and mistreatment of marginalized groups banished to Ward’s Island. Combining compassionate understanding with clear and informed insight, this account is impossible to put down. The final chapter, with an alternative vision for the island’s future, is positively thrilling.”
I am also on Travis Myers’ podcast, Another Nobody! Myers is a crime author, including the three book series which begins with Sister Margaret, A Tommy Keane Novel. “Sister Margaret is a gut punch of a tale that takes the reader behind the crime-scene tape and onto an exhilarating tour of the streets, drug dens, dive bars, and precinict houses of New York City, with an insiders view that rarely makes the papers.” -Jesse Smith, Crime Journalist, Kingston Times