John J. Lennon
Writer at Freelance
Incarcerated journalist writing from Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Contributing Editor for @Esquire.
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1 month ago |
celadonbooks.com | John J. Lennon
In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he’s a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all. The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered the New York prison system with a sentence of 28 years to life but after he stepped into a writing workshop at Attica Correctional Facility, his whole life changed.
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Sep 16, 2024 |
msn.com | John J. Lennon
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Sep 16, 2024 |
washingtonpost.com | John J. Lennon
(New Press)Review by John J. LennonSeptember 16, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. EDTOver 20 years ago, when a Brooklyn judge sentenced me to 25 years to life, stacked on top of the three years I was already serving for selling drugs, she didn’t have much hope for me. To be fair, I didn’t have much hope for me, either. Back then, I was the worst version of myself. I had just murdered a man, tried to get away with it at trial, and the judge heard all the dirty details.
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May 2, 2024 |
slate.com | John J. Lennon
Junk science has put people on death row.
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Nov 6, 2023 |
nytimes.com | John J. Lennon
CORRECTION: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change, by Ben AustenOne morning in late September, around the time I was finishing Ben Austen’s “Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change,” I was walking the perimeter of a prison yard in upstate New York with a fellow inmate, 68-year-old Kasiem Chaves. We call him “Old God.” Gray and gangly, he was about to go before the parole board for the third time, having served nearly 41 years.
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Kwaneta Harris's appearance on @ThisAmerLife was heartbreaking and loving and funny. So many issues in women's prisons, and when delivered like this, they stay with you. https://t.co/XBd50voBtM
If you’re a journalist or influencer or true crime fan who wonders what leads to extreme acts of violence—and how true crime affects our understanding of crime and punishment—this book is for you. Please contact my publicist @MeganPosco for an advance copy.
I've seen this book come together over the last three years, and it's incredible. The fact that @JohnJLennon1 reported it out and wrote it from prison makes it a stunning achievement. Feeling lucky I get to tell the world about it. Journos/reviewers, reach out for ARCs.
Two men died the other day, and a few weeks ago two guys OD’d on my tier. With this strike, the madness in B Block––in my almost 24 years locked up, and in this so-called reform era, I've never seen anything like it. Just exasperated and trying to keep my own head together.