West Memphis Three
West Memphis Three's Damien Echols talks up his new memoir, and moving on
Echols now has a book. Titled Life After Death, it's a memoir comprised mostly of journal entries he wrote while in prison, as well as some writing he’s done since his release. Echols has loved writing since he was 12. "[It's] something that scratches an itch deep inside of you that you can’t reach any other way,” he said. When he was keeping journals in prison, he always had the sense that he wasn’t recording his thoughts entirely for himself. “Even while I was writing I would think that maybe one day, somehow, this was going to mean something to someone else, or have an impact on someone else’s life.” More
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