Slow coming dark: Interviews on death row

by Doug Magee

The author presents a dozen interviews with men and women on death row.

181 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1980

About the author

I'm a writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in New York's East Harlem. I am the author of the novels Never Wave Goodbye and Darkness All Around (both Touchstone/Simon and Schuster). My new novel, President Blog, will be out as an ebook on January 24th, 2016

Reviews

[Brenda George · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book about 30 years ago when I was researching the Death Penalty for two of my novels. It had a profound effect on me. I have always been against the Death Penalty and this strongly reinforced my own heartfelt feelings about it. I went to New York (from South Africa)and managed to get a day-long tour of Sing Sing Correctional Facility where I met an inmate who had gone on a hunger strike against the Death Penalty along with a "writer". I told the inmate my feelings about the Death Penalty and said I'd read this book and would love to meet the author. It turned out the "writer" was none other than Doug Magee himself. Furthermore the inmate had a newspaper artcile about it AND Doug's telephone Number. Talk about synchronicity! I was able to meet Doug Magee at a bar in Manhattan for an all-too-short while.I see he is now writing novels - if he can move me with them the way he moved me with this book, he'll be greatly successful as a novelist. Good luck, Doug!

[Anne Yoon · Rating 4 out of 5]

not the most brilliantly written thing, but i think this book made me believe in love again.