Bite-Size Book Club: This Is Ear Hustle

At this Bite-Size Book Club, we meet and discuss SFPL’s 17th One City One Book selection, Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods' This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life. We take a deep dive into life inside over three meetings leading up to the main event with Poor and Woods on Thur., Nov. 3, 6 p.m., Koret Auditorium and streaming.

Suggested Chapters for Bite-Size Book Club

Mon., Oct. 3 - Part I: Let’s Do This, pages 1-50 and Part ll: We’re Going to Take You Inside, pages 55-102

Mon., Oct. 17 - Part ll: We’re Going to Take You Inside, pages 103-205

Mon., Oct. 24 - Part lll: Inside out, pages 209-end
 

Nigel Poor is the co-creator, co-host and co-producer of Ear Hustle (PRX & Radiotopia). A visual artist and photography professor at California State University, Sacramento, Poor has had her work exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the SFMOMA and de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 2011, she got involved with San Quentin State Prison as a volunteer teacher for the Prison University Project.

Earlonne Woods is the co-creator, co-host, and co-producer of Ear Hustle (PRX & Radiotopia). In 1997, Earlonne was sentenced to thirty-one years to life in prison. While incarcerated, he received his GED, attended Coastline Community College and completed many vocational programs. He also founded CHOOSE1, which aims to repeal the California Three Strikes Law, the statute under which he was sentenced. In November 2018, then-California Governor Jerry Brown commuted Earlonne’s sentence after twenty-one years of incarceration and Earlonne became a full-time producer for Ear Hustle. His efforts with CHOOSE1 continue, as he advocates for restorative justice and works to place a repeal initiative on the ballot in 2022, among others.