LIFE BEHIND BARS
Mayer, Milton
Life Behind Bars PRISON ETIQUETTE, The Convict's Compendium of Useful Information, edited by Holley Can-tine and Dachine Rainer, with an introduction by Christopher Isher-wood. Retort Press...
...138 pp...
...Delightful—if the most inappropriate imaginable word may be used— reading...
...The book will be read by a limited audience...
...2.50...
...Reviewed by Milton Mayer IN A HOMELY (but attractive) hand-set, hand-bound, and foot-pedal-press-printed book, with Lowell Naeve's rugged illustrations, a dozen American war resisters, all of them talented writers, tell what life was like in the prisons of the Land of the Free in the last war...
...a world which would read it would be a world which no longer needed to...
...Retort Press (Bearsville, N. Y...
...And packed with the naked depths that emerge only in prison literature...
...The sharpest conclusion: Men who suffer (as the world calls it) because they have chosen suffering don't suffer as much as men who try to dodge suffering or accept the alternative of making others suffer...
Vol. 14 • July 1950 • No. 7
