The materials are kind of rough to work with. KERMAN: So the skills of the prisoners are much better. KERMAN: As it turns out, the food in the chow hall is pretty bad. Which I did not think was the thing that happened in prison. SAGAL: I was actually amazed to read this in the book - that all this cooking went on. KERMAN: They were very interested in the cheesecake recipe, actually, at the men's facility. SAGAL: Do you ever teach them any of your famous prison recipes? I teach a class in which students come in and write true stories from their own life - essentially, memoir writing class. KERMAN: I teach a true story writing class. SAGAL: So you're back in prison, although now you are doing it as an instructor. For sure - and all the people - all the wonderful people who make it. And the show takes the book, puts it in a blender and puts a lot of other ingredients in there. But they took some liberties with the TV series. But - and so we should say that the book, obviously, is a memoir. SAGAL: I feel - I mean, I, of course, believe that everybody knows your story.

And yeah, I've been living here in Ohio for almost five years. Peter asked her if the authorities knew her whereabouts. Kerman near Cleveland, where she had been working teaching writing in Ohio prisons. Many people love the Netflix TV show 'Orange Is The New Black.' But they may not know it's based on the experience of a real person, Piper Kerman, who really did serve a year in a women's prison.īILL KURTIS: We interviewed Ms.

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