The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

<h4>Caleb Smith is professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of <i>The Prison and the American Imagination</i> (Yale University Press, 2009) and <i>The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War</i> (Harvard University Press, 2013). His essays on contemporary culture have appeared in <i>BOMB</i>, <i>Paper Monument</i>, <i>Yale Review</i>, and <i>Avidly.org</i>. His homepage is http://calebsmith.commons.yale.edu/.</h4>

Caleb Smith

<h4>Bashaun Brown is co-founder and CEO of TRAP House — a business incubator that helps drug dealers become legal entrepreneurs. Bashaun is a former student of Wesleyan Center for Prison Education and current student at Wesleyan University. A New Jersey native, Brown now resides in Middletown, Connecticut.</h4>

Bashaun Brown

In for Doom: Austin Reed’s “The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

<p>"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn</p>

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Bashaun Brown is co-founder and CEO of TRAP House — a business incubator that helps drug dealers become legal entrepreneurs. Bashaun is a former student of Wesleyan Center for Prison Education and current student at Wesleyan University. A New Jersey native, Brown now resides in Middletown, Connecticut.