It's hard to sum up this episode. Author Melanie Conroy-Goldman stopped by the Jam Bunker to talk about her latest book, The Likely World. But, as we do here, we took a left turn through her work in prison literacy, her brief stint with AmeriCorp teaching Spanish (which she didn't speak) in Compton, and through her fascinating life in words.

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