City Time Release and Tour

City Time is out today on NYU Press. You can buy a copy here.

Here is some advance praise for the book:

"A riveting portrayal of everyday life at the jail. The authors’ unhurried cataloging of seemingly endless quotidian deprivations fascinates. Readers will be rapt."  

-Publishers Weekly, STARRED

 

"Engrossing, intimate... [Campbell and Shanahan] are deft and balanced collaborators, writing with academic rigor, as well as humor and compassion." 

-Kirkus Reviews

 

"David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan offer an up-close study of the banality and brutality of short-term incarceration at Rikers Island. Their methodical analysis of the relationships, routines, economies, and architectures of the infamous jail is punctuated by vibrant and evocative insights into the sensory experience of incarceration – the smells, sights, sounds and tastes of the quotidian depravities, degradations, frictions, and resistances that marked their 'city time.'"

-Judah Schept, co-editor of The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration

 

"As the notorious Rikers Island is on the verge of closing, City Time provides a timely and invaluable archive written by two men who have experienced its everyday life from inside. This exceptional document, which unveils the meaninglessness of short-stay imprisonment, is a must-read for anyone who wants to reflect on carceral punishment." 

-Didier Fassin, author of Prison Worlds. An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition

To celebrate, co-author David Campbell and I will be appearing at the following book events later this month. Hope to see you there!

January 14

Center For Brooklyn History 

128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn

6:30pm

January 15

The Wooden Shoe

704 South St, Philadelphia

7pm

January 16

Red Emma's

3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore

7pm

January 17

Small Friend Records & Books

1 N. Lombardy St., Richmond

7pm

January 19

Woodbine

585 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood

4pm (note the early time)

January 20

Tiny Raccoon Books

277 Railroad Ave, Sayville, NY

7pm

January 21

Loyola University (Lakeshore)

6430 N. Kenmore Ave, Chicago
Cuneo Hall, Room 109

6pm

January 22

Governors State University

1 University Parkway, University Park, IL

Social Justice Building

4pm