Twenty Years Ago, Teenage Boys In The

I've Written About Illegal Immigrants In The United States; I Spent A Year Following Migrant Farm Workers As They Were Harvesting. I've Written About Our Criminal Justice System, And How It Treats The Victims Of Crime. I've Been Working For Years Now On A Book About Prisons In America, And I've Been Going Into Prisons And Traveling Around The Country And Seeing What's Going On.

The United States Now Has More Prison Inmates Than Full-time Farmers.

There's Also A Growing Trend Toward Having Gardens In Schools To Literally Show Kids Where Food Comes From By Having Them Grow And Prepare Their Own Food. There's Also A Movement That's Bringing Farmers Into Schools And Creating Relationships Between Local Farms And Local Cafeterias, So That Instead Of Frozen Mystery Meat, You Have Fresh Produce That's Coming From The Area That Has A Name And A Face Associated With It.

Years Ago When I Got Stuck, I'd Start Twirling My Hair. That's Not Possible Anymore. I Can't Prove The Relationship Between Writing And Hair Loss, But I Think I Pulled Out A Fair Amount Trying To Work On Certain Sentences.

A Public Outcry Usually Masks A Private Obsession.