Mark Dostert, memoirist
Feb 08, 2018•43 min
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Episode description
We talk to Mark Dostert about his memoir recounting his time as a juvenile attendant in Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago’s Other Side, choosing the right color white for your juvenile detention center, and the merits of jailing kids with outmoded and punitive drug laws.
Photo credit: Chris Wineinger
Suggested readings from Mark:
Dostert’s opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News
Mark's short story "Rocks, July 1994" in Green Hills Literary Lantern, also a finalist for the 2017 Lamar York Prize
Stories by Mark
"The Saint of 3F" in Hayden's Ferry Review: The Dock
"Getting Rid of the Get" in Punctuate
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