This week on The Reading Life: Bestselling crime novelist Sara Paretsky, author of the V.I. Warshawski series and this year's winner of the Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction for a Distinguished Body of Work, who's coming for Bouchercon, the great mystery writers and fans convention taking place next weekend.
We'll also talk with sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. Steve Merlan and Alexander Ruch from Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners tell us about their important work.
**Lagniappe Audio**
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Arlie Hochschild talks about the two great paradoxes and the Great Story.
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Steve Merlan and Alexander Ruch from Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners read letters and tell of their personal experiences with the program.