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Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir

Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir

Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir is the story of a gay, educated, HIV+ writer’s nine months behind bars in California.

2017

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Let me thank you profoundly.

One would think this approach might immunize you from the kinds of frantic denunciations you are getting in the comments, but helas, no. I…

4d ago

4d ago

The Disorientation of Survival

Three Episodes of a Podcast

Nov 19

The Disorientation of Survival

Nov 19

One Last Closing Argument

My pitch for a final pitch

Nov 3

One Last Closing Argument

Nov 3

The Necessity of Empathy Now

It’s as Essential as it is Elusive

Sep 28

The Necessity of Empathy Now

Sep 28

What American Fiction Doesn’t Get Right

Because of my work, I actually saw “American Fiction” three times. What I liked was how determined the story was to portray a very…

Mar 24

What American Fiction Doesn’t Get Right

Mar 24

White is Just the Beginning: Privileges Revealed in the Most Unprivileged of Places

THE TERM “PRIVILEGE” — white or otherwise — was not really in vogue when I spent nine months in the California prison system in 2004. And…

Nov 2, 2023

White is Just the Beginning: Privileges Revealed in the Most Unprivileged of Places

Nov 2, 2023

Guilty Bystanders

The Cycle of Vengeance Must End

Oct 31, 2023

Guilty Bystanders

Oct 31, 2023

Why We Can’t Have Nothing Nice

It’s clear to me that evolution — as beautiful and complex and mysterious as it is — is fatally flawed when it comes to human beings.

Oct 17, 2023

Why We Can’t Have Nothing Nice

Oct 17, 2023

Mr. Olmsted Regrets

The older I get, the more I realize what a completely zigzaggy and very melodramatic life I’ve led next to so many of my peers. I don’t say…

Sep 11, 2023

Mr. Olmsted Regrets

Sep 11, 2023

What I Don’t Get About Galloping Magaism.

It continually brings me up short to realize I am in the same age range, often even much older, than these conservative white men rampaging…

Apr 14, 2023

What I Don’t Get About Galloping Magaism.

Apr 14, 2023

Mark Olmsted

Mark Olmsted

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Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.

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