Richard Stratton 10/24 @ Half King
[from the Half King's newsletter]
Monday October 24th at 7pm
Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen
Richard Stratton
Altered States of America is outlaw-cum-journalist Richard Stratton’s collection of stories on subjects ranging from Greg Scarpa, a Columbo mob captain turned informant; Bonecrusher, a guard at Corcoran penitentiary who witnessed the bloody gladiator fights between convicts; the CIA's top-secret MK-ULTRA program in which the CIA secretly dosed unsuspecting civilians and its own agents with LSD, or the heartbreaking profile of Joe Stassi, America's oldest living gangster, who was ordered to murder his best friend. Stratton’s very particular credibility allows him an empathetic and deeper reach into his subjects’ psyches.
Richard Stratton was arrested and convicted in 1982 under the Kingpin Statute for importation of marijuana. Stratton became a jailhouse lawyer and had his sentence voided. His novel, Smack Goddess, was published in 1990, the same year that he was released from prison. Stratton co-wrote and produced the feature film Slam, which won the Camera d'Or at Cannes and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, the Emmy Award-winning Thug Life in DC and many other documentaries, and created the Showtime series Street Time, based on his own life. He is the founding editor of Prison Life, and has written for GQ, Esquire, Newsweek, Details, Penthouse and Story. Stratton lives in New York City.
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Monday October 24th at 7pm
Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen
Richard Stratton
Altered States of America is outlaw-cum-journalist Richard Stratton’s collection of stories on subjects ranging from Greg Scarpa, a Columbo mob captain turned informant; Bonecrusher, a guard at Corcoran penitentiary who witnessed the bloody gladiator fights between convicts; the CIA's top-secret MK-ULTRA program in which the CIA secretly dosed unsuspecting civilians and its own agents with LSD, or the heartbreaking profile of Joe Stassi, America's oldest living gangster, who was ordered to murder his best friend. Stratton’s very particular credibility allows him an empathetic and deeper reach into his subjects’ psyches.
Richard Stratton was arrested and convicted in 1982 under the Kingpin Statute for importation of marijuana. Stratton became a jailhouse lawyer and had his sentence voided. His novel, Smack Goddess, was published in 1990, the same year that he was released from prison. Stratton co-wrote and produced the feature film Slam, which won the Camera d'Or at Cannes and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, the Emmy Award-winning Thug Life in DC and many other documentaries, and created the Showtime series Street Time, based on his own life. He is the founding editor of Prison Life, and has written for GQ, Esquire, Newsweek, Details, Penthouse and Story. Stratton lives in New York City.
THE HALF KING IS LOCATED AT 505 WEST 23RD STREET, LOCATED JUST WEST OF 10TH AVENUE.
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