118. Lisa Knopp on Redemption, Capital Punishment, and Her New Book ‘From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row'

Dr. Lisa Knopp teaches creative nonfiction at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha and has written several books, including Bread,
What the River Carries, and Field of Vision. Her latest book is
From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row,
which chronicles her friendship with Carey Dean Moore, who spent
38 years on death row before his execution in 2018. 


On today's show, Knopp talks to Tom Knoblauch about how her
earlier writing, which was largely focused on place, has come to
encompass the broader political questions of why and how a place
becomes what it is, as well as how she came to be a death penalty
abolitionist in a state where many in the largely Christian
culture support capital punishment instead of the possibility of
redemption.


Check out her book here.