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thank you so much carmen cigar and please pull up your chairs. [inaudible] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. the top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. but tv television for serious readers. >> each month reminds book club hoechst a book discussion with inmates at the district of columbia jail in washington, d.c., founded in 2000 and two with the reminds book club goal is to connect inmates with contemporary literature through reading and writing. books to be discussed are selected in part by the inmates. >> it is very much like war in a sense. prison is such a negative space in such spiritless space. you know what i'm saying. it is hard to explain for real for real. just like and how this book a lot of these stories i can feel him trying to express in the best way that he can and it still does seem to be adequate sometimes. you know i mean. and that's how i've been feeling about trying to express what it be in prison. >> up because of one ma one man that wanted to get back glenn mcginnis, he was on death row in texas at the age of