Piper Kerman | Author of Orange is the New Black

Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, sits down with Wendy Mesley.
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[@showyourLegend]

unfortunate how obvious it is that the interviewer did not actually read Kerman's book and just watched the tv series

[@Thatgeekycanadian]

This interviewer is not terribly intelligent in her questions or attitudes. A shame since piper can teach us so much

[@kelseybarker7208]

Piper, on the other hand, is so eloquent and well spoken. I love it. I learned a lot as it is.

[@lol-qv7pw]

I wanna read the book

[@carischumann6300]

Piper is being very polite to this lady .She is pretty ignorant she probably should have read the book proir to the interview.

[@sirmontyrock]

Piper Kerman always make me vomit.

[@lol-qv7pw]

Why?​@@sirmontyrock

[@Ciao1234ist]

She's SOOO Piper

[@Andrei-qi4tm]

Older version maybe

[@tonnyraymond]

I'm sorry but this interview really sucked. The interviewer didn't have any good questions and if she wanted to inform us about the criminal justice system she should've interviewed someone in law enforcement, she didn't really ask anything about the book nor the Netflix series. As a journalist myself, piper gave her a lot of bait to ask about the book or the series. For example, when piper mentioned the series was going into its 3rd season she should've asked me About that. Horrible interviewer.

[@witchofdanight13162]

Prison, not jail.

[@scarface82us]

You've been there?

[@eLsiity]

What's the difference? (English is not my first language)

[@xShareem]

@@eLsiity you go yo jail before prison

[@hannacarter9782]

Is there a big difference between jail and prison? Sorry I’m from the UK and we just have prison.

[@charizardx8157]

Prison is usually longer, more severe crimes, as well as a lot more people. Jail is usually less violent crimes and less of a sentence.

[@AarontheArtist57]

"because law enforcement is racist?" uh ... YES?

[@realSimoneCherie]

PJM yes but this interviewer wasn’t really asking to listen It’s not just about police it’s about prosecutors, grand juries, legislators, the list goes on

[@clementine9187]

uh... NO.

[@jashkumar8617]

She's like Judy king famous now

[@beaippos]

why is she giggling at every question she ask? that's really annoying

[@rainbowbgood]

Sounds like we should all just be reading the book.

[@eLsiity]

This Piper seems a lot more intelligent and self aware then the one playing her in the TV show

[@lowkeynopressure6739]

Gotta maintain the drama. Piper in the show is pretty intelligent though she's just not prison smart

[@ook4818]

Taylor Schilling is actually very very intelligent and very well articulated

[@beatthebop9620]

The interviewer was a little disrespectful, almost seemed intentional towards the end. 🤨

[@MrPlayDay]

what? almost 3 years in the SHU? that is evil

[@droboyjr]

was the show completely different than the book? cuz it sounds like it

[@pennyh8747]

Jerry A. The show was inspired by the book but is different in many ways

[@jadedangel8609]

Very very different. Showbiz.

[@oaxaca911]

She’s so well spoken no wonder I’m having a hard time reading her book. Learning tons of new vocabulary and it’s slowing me down.

[@c.m.2973]

This interviewer is acting clueless lol

[@scoobydisney]

She seems highly intelligent.

[@El1society]

Wait so an actual Alex really exists?

[@willow8186]

Yes, but not an Alex like the one in the show. They didn't actually hook up in prison like the do in the show, that was just altered for the sake of the story.

[@willow8186]

Yes, but not an Alex like the one in the show. They didn't actually hook up in prison like the do in the show, that was just altered for the sake of the story.

[@emmafloyd3578]

Heda Kom TriKru yeah. The base story is the same. Alex's real name is Nora.

[@meggmcmuffinnn]

Actually, it’s Cleary Wolters. Nora was the alias given to her in the book. So she technically has three names. Her real name, the name in the book, and her stage name given in the series.

[@angeliquehogan8749]

Clearly Wolters

[@YoungBlaze]

Who was crzy eyes based on

[@elionoirk340]

A women called crazy eyes

[@loganburgess5001]

While no one in the books or tv show share the same name as the prisoners that Piper met in real life, they are based on them. Crazy Eyes aka Suzanne Warren in real life, while we don't know her real name, we know that she actually wasn't black, she was white and she wasn't nicknamed ''Crazy Eyes'' because of her crazy eye expressions, it was because her eyes were oddly shaped/placed, and the real Suzanne Warren didn't stalk or harrass Piper, she did look and stare a little at Piper according to the real Claudette but that was all she did. So, really, most of the character ''Suzanne Warren'' is actually fictionalised for TV.

[@BronaldBT]

I feel like Jodie Foster would have been awesome at depicting this woman

[@helenangelescasana4285]

Saludos desde Perú me encantó la serie desde el inicio me quede mirando x horas hasta el día de hoy que ya termine ver la ultima temporada y me siento triste xq llego a su final😭😢

[@otakunationweeaboopower7797]

yep with all these facts the show got her personality rigjt

[@HaShapYallBad]

Damn that “white privilege” in priceless damn! damn! Damn!!!

[@JoseOrtega-XOR75]

5 years later and nothing has changed.

[@helenangelescasana4285]

Saludos desde Perú me encantó la serie desde el inicio me quede mirando x horas hasta el día de hoy que ya termine ver la ultima temporada y me siento triste xq llego a su final😭😢

[@JoanneMaher76]

Piper Kerman is gifted with the ability to prompt change in the inequality of the prison system. This interview shows it

[@spongbog100]

Orange is the New Black is based on a true story

[@stephaniewatkins8022]

M-Cool wow thanks for that

[@kawaiiann6954]

Stephanie Watkins lmaooo 😂😂

[@madsssen67]

But not 100%, right?

[@leighjohn6968]

Amen to her not forgetting her past!It is refreshing to hear someone not attempt to pay the oppression olympics inwhich we pretend that because a few white people have a bad experience that inequity does not exist! Yes, white peoplw have problems too, but it is not because they were born a certain color, thats the difference!

[@MariaConceicao-pd2zf]

Queria entrevista com Alex da vida real.

[@Zaes223]

Non violent drug offense. I am curious. How many people do you think died from the heroin that you facilitated the movement of? No how many lives and families were destroyed? Non-Violent drug crimes exist but her non violent drug crime was not a joke. This was not an ounce of weed. This was laundering money for a heroin kingpin.

[@savagetv1612]

Zaes666 remember she did it just once , which Alex put her up too

[@lowkeynopressure6739]

A 1 time offense. And nobody is forced to buy heroin btw just in case you didn't know

[@stefanhernold345]

Homegirl has every reason in the world to resent her parents for giving her *one of the most asinine names* ever given to a female child (plus a 2nd name more feminine, yet so hard to pronounce as to keep po` Piper from picking it as her calling name of choice).

[@itsadahg1076]

I just wanna know if she ends up with *Alex* or someone else 🤨🤨

[@userap3127]

No, she ends up with her husband

[@Jelolol]

Hai

[@sstainlesst]

i love how certain people flip a negative in to a positive.. i did drugs but law is rasist

[@treetrout3987]

I met Wendy Mesley in the 80's. She is even more beautiful in person. Very cultured composure.

[@translatormarwahassan3685]

Can anyone send me a copy of this novel?

[@adjajoney3582]

Use libby

[@MasterWooten]

Unequal treatment, guy in dorm room commits exact same offence as guy in public housing. Are they treated differently. More than likely yes, and not as Wendy always thinks due to law enforcement being racist. Guy in dorm room often has NO priors whereas guy from public housing already has priors. Guy with priors will almost ALWAYS get the harsher sentence as that is a universal principle of sentencing. Piper for example is a one time loser who did time with multiple time losers hence her relatively light sentence for being a cooperative and remorseful offender. I'm sure while in jail she was "Ms Goodie Two Shoes" which also spoke to her relatively early parole.Police even if you want to call them stupid and racist aren't the ones prosecuting and sentencing criminals, its educated lawyers, judges and others in the criminal justice system. Do a political/social analysis of any group of lawyers and judges anywhere, you'd find that they are far more liberal than is the rest of society. That being said the sentences handed down, especially in places like Canada are all too often bemoaned as too lenient, not too harsh.

[@waltonsmith7210]

Just because some people bemoan it doesnt mean its the case. The fact that anyone is in jail for a nonviolent drug offense at all is too harsh in it's very premise.

[@blackrain1999]

Yeah dude, the sentences for violent crimes are often far too lenient, this doesn't mean that they are for other sentences as well. They make their politics by getting more people into prison for minor crimes or by doing an easy job of only prosecuting insignificant people at the bottom of a criminal orgnaization while the big fish remain unbothered.

[@mupine67]

She is right even though I don't like her as she is a yuppie

[@leval1000]

Wouldn’t she be in JAIL if it’s just a year? Talking about milking it with a false narrative.

[@frankiefigliano151]

She carried money for a drug cartel. It's a federal crime of which she was in a federal corrections facility. It was prison, not jail.

[@brookem4904]

No, not necessarily. First comment is correct.

[@penelopekristan5860]

Who knows, maybe she got a year and a day, the extra day then making her eligible to serve time in prison.

[@elizabethjohnson7443]

No, that’s not how that works. She was in a federal prison. This could’ve been solved by an easy google search

[@SamanthaLeigh7]

She was sentenced to 15 months and served 13 months. She was in federal prison.

[@pedrogonzalez5741]

Non violent crimes? A crime is crime !!! So is not violent you don't have to prison??

[@blackrain1999]

No a crime is not a crime. We differentiate different types of crimes for a reason. For example shoplifting is NOT the same as smashing in the skull of your girlfriend, sorry dude.