and last but certainly not least is david, although we all know him as mac markie, who is the coeditor of books through bars story, he's from the prison books movement. and mac is a lifelong activist as well as an academic. he has worked with concerned family and friends. mumia abu-jamal. earth first, the ashmore bill global report. and in memorable other organizations, small and large. he has volunteered at several prison programs, out of which this book has arisen, and he helped establish the ashville prison books as well as he sample sucks file prison books. mac has served as the book review editor for h. labor was a board member of the southern labor studies. the executive assistant for the labor and working class history association, and he is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the university of south carolina now where he is working on a graphic history of the brotherhood of timber workers in production with the historic new orleans collection. so we're going to ask a series of questions and then invite all of you to be in conversation with us about what this book published throu