Jeff Dietrich on Reluctant Resister Part 2

Jeff Dietrich on Reluctant Resister

May 2, 2023. This week on Bibliocracy Radio on KFPK 90.7 FM in Southern California, Part II with Jeff Dietrich on the 40th anniversary reprint edition of his landmark book of prison letters. His Reluctant Resister, a classic of nonviolent resistance literature, is a defining example of the letters of a prisoner of conscience. Loyola Marymount Institute has just reissued the book. We talk, and he reads from i, including a section early on in his incarceration, and also a kind of literary and spiritual and political origin story. By turns thoughtful and humorous, the letters are a memoir, meditation, documentary account, and philosophical interrogation of the war machine and the carceral state by a sincere and strong person of faith who challenged authority, took its punishment but ultimately, won.

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