Many of you, I’m sure, think you’d love the idea of seeing your life portrayed in movies or television. But imagine if you knew nothing about it. If one day, you saw an ad for a TV show, and you, or at least your life, was the central character. Would you be scared, shocked, angry, a little excited. Cleary Wolters experienced all of thee things. As she saw her life in prison portrayed as Alex Vaus in ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK. Originally portrayed as Nora Jansen in Piper Kerman’s book, her life would transform again as a result of her story becoming part of an entertainment and cultural juggernaut. Now Cleary Wolters takes her star turn as a writer and tells her story in her memoir Out of Orange: A Memoir. My conversation with Cleary Wolters:
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