In THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: The Secret Prison History of American Music, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the criminal justice system’s impact on our musicians, explored through compelling portraits of five artists whose careers span the twentieth century. Asher traces the intertwined histories of music and incarceration, from Southern prison farms of the Jim Crow era to our present era of mass incarceration. Colin Asher is the author of the critically acclaimed Never a Lovely So Real, and his work has been featured in The Believer, The Baffler, the New Republic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
