Tonight, Piper Kerman, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison—now a popular Netflix original series entering its third season—speaks in Bend tonight as part of the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s Author! Author! series. I chatted with Kerman for a profile in this week’s […]
Orange is the New Black
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Serving Time, Serving Truth
“Orange is the New Black” author Piper Kerman speaks in Bend
After graduating with a theater degree from an elite women’s college in the early 1990s, Piper Kerman was looking for excitement. She found it in a girlfriend who took her to exotic locales across the globe—and just happened to smuggle drugs. When Kerman’s relatively minor role in those illicit transactions caught up with her a […]
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To Binge, or Not to Binge
That’s not a question
Binge watching Netflix is an art. An art that I have mastered. Sprawled out on my couch in my house-onesie, my phone in arm’s reach for randomly refreshing Twitter and the ability to order pizza without leaving my seat, I have only one goal in mind: watch every episode of whatever show I’ve randomly decided […]
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Watch “Orange is the New Black.” It’s Impressively Good.
The new Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black,” is phenomenal. And I’ve only watched one of the 13 episodes. Others in the office, already addicted to the hilarious yet poignant, well written/scripted/acted series about a late 20s upper middle class white woman who goes to prison for a decade-old drug offense, say it […]