{"id":49415,"date":"2013-11-08T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T02:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=49415"},"modified":"2013-11-08T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T02:15:40","slug":"harper-discusses-letters-to-an-incarcerated-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2013\/11\/harper-discusses-letters-to-an-incarcerated-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper Discusses ‘Letters To An Incarcerated Brother’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former CSI: New York<\/i> actor Hill Harper<\/b> (Dr Sheldon Hawkes) released his fifth book<\/a>, Letters to an Incarcerated Brother<\/i>, earlier this week. Here’s the link to the official website<\/a> for the book, and you can find a collection of interviews and videos after the jump!<\/p>\n

\nHarper spoke to Essence<\/a> about the book, and here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

ESSENCE.com: You\u2019ve written the book especially for incarcerated men. Why?<\/p>\n

\nHill Harper<\/b>: I want to be clear: the book is for incarcerated men as well as women, and their families. I started getting letters from a number of incarcerated young people as well as adults and the correspondence really touched my heart. A number of the letters are in my book. There\u2019s one in there from a young man named Brian that made me ask the question Did Brian fail society or did society fail Brian? That\u2019s what started me down the road, researching and exploring this idea. Just like any of my books, I\u2019m not the expert. I\u2019m just like the reader; attempting to figure it out. The impetus of this book is wanting to fill a void. Incarceration is like a cancer in our community. We are 13 percent of the U.S. population, but we\u2019re 60 percent of inmates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nNext, check out this interview from the New York Observer<\/a>, and here’s a quote about Harper’s future writing plans:<\/p>\n

Do you have any plans for a future book?<\/b><\/p>\n

\nYou know what? This is it. This is my final nonfiction book. So people are gonna enjoy it or not. I feel like I\u2019ve said all that I want to say. I put everything I got into this one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nAlso check out this exclusive interview from OK! Magazine<\/a>. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

OK<\/i>!: A lot of your projects are about inspiring young people and mentoring, so I\u2019m wondering if anyone ever mentored you, and what their strongest message to you was?<\/p>\n

\nHH<\/b>: I had so many people in my life, and by far the strongest message was this: \u201cThere is nothing you can\u2019t do.\u201d No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that. To me that is what this whole book is about\u2014telling people that you\u2019re not stuck. There is a way to fix it and change. I was really fortunate that I had people in my life that taught me that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nHere’s the recording of a Spreecast interview<\/a> Harper did on November 6. In it, he discusses Letters to an Incarcerated Brother<\/i>, Covert Affairs<\/i> and CSI: NY<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\nYou can also check out the video below, in which Harper spoke to Sway in the Morning<\/i> on November 7:<\/p>\n

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