Orange Is the New Black Resources
Websites
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Piper Kerman's website is now a one-stop shop for everything book and show related.
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Piper's friend's website, the Pipe Bomb, is still up! It even has a link to Piper's Amazon wish list, which includes Virginia Woolf (a cell of one's own!) and the Odyssey.
Movie or TV Productions
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The official Netflix site has trailers, interviews, and everything you need about the much more dramatic (and attractive) television adaptation of the memoir.
Articles and Interviews
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In this interview with Salon.com, Kerman says, "more people have experience with the criminal justice system than people assume." How'd she know about our criminal past?
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Piper Kerman, a prisoner with a literary agent, says, "It wasn't even so much my own story […] but the people I met along the way who would probably never have this opportunity." She definitely got the message out there.
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Larry's magazine ran an interview with Piper in which she talks about how she remembered so many details without a journal or tattooing them onto her arm with a ballpoint pen.
Video
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This is probably the only time you'll watch C-SPAN and not fall asleep.
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We're number one! We're number one! Oh wait… we're number one in incarceration rates in the world… that's not something to cheer about.
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A TEDx talk? More like a TEDx-con talk, by former convict and memoirist Piper Kerman.
Audio
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Kerman talks about the not-so-fresh air in prison with Terry Gross.
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With season two of the show hitting the Netflix, Kerman continues her advocacy for prison reform.
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Kerman's memoir was the "Talk of the Nation" even before the Netflix show came out.
Images
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Here are the real Piper and Larry… post jail time.
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Taylor Schilling isn't an inmate, but she plays one on television. Here she is with the real ex-con, Piper Kerman.
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The Netflix series takes the line "impossibly stylish and cool lesbian" to the next level with Laura Prepon's portrayal of Nora-turned-Alex Vause.