This week marks Zek’s first press review published simultaneously in the Seattle Weekly and in the Seattle Review of Books. Reviewer Paul Constant writes, “The writing in Zek is simple, straightforward. It’s not beautiful, but the bluntness of the language suits the subject matter perfectly. We see the prison through Jonny’s eyes, and the unadorned vocabulary and sentence structure matches his pragmatic worldview.” But it’s the last line of the review that resonates the most. Check it out.
‘Zek’ Rips the Walls Away From a Prison in Eastern Washington – Seattle Weekly
An underground classic in prisons, the book is being published for the public for the first time. One day in the not-so-distant future, Americans will look with shame and regret on the way we currently treat our prisoners. Over-incarceration abounds-particularly of African-American and Hispanic men-and rehabilitation is barely an afterthought.
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