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Cosmopolitan, The Real Reason We Like Bad Girls (June 20, 2014)
The Diane Rehm Show, Piper Kerman On Her Story That Inspired The Netflix Series (June 9, 2014)
The New York Times, Jailhouse Blues (May 28, 2014)
U.S. Senate, Solitary Confinement Testimony, Piper Kerman
(Feb. 26, 2014)
New York Times, For Women, a Second Sentence (Aug. 13, 2013)
Fresh Air, NPR.com, Behind 'The New Black' (Aug. 12, 2013)

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Piper Kerman is the author of Orange is the New Black, now available in paperback and audiobook.