Ep. 44 - Daniel Genis, Former Atheist Prisoner

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Genis (rhymes with "tennis") grew up in New York City, where he attended Stuyvesant High School and New York University, graduating with a degree in history and French. In 2003, however, he committed five armed robberies, which led to a decade behind bars. During that time, he wrote a novel called Narcotica. Now that he’s out, he’s been writing about the intersection of religion and incarceration for publications like Vice, Deadspin, the Washington Post. New York Daily News, and Newsweek. We spoke with Daniel about the soul exchange that got him in trouble, why we should feel any sympathy for him, and what he hopes to do now that he's a free man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.6	Daniel Janice grew up in New York. Daniel Geneses
1:14.1	grew up in New York City where he attended Stuyvesant High School and New York
1:18.2	University graduating with a degree in history and French. In 2003, however, he committed five armed robberies
1:25.3	which led to a decade behind bars. We'll talk about that in a little bit. During
1:29.8	that time in prison, he wrote a novel called Narcotica. Now that he's out he's been writing
1:34.8	about the intersection of religion and incarceration for publications like
1:39.1	Vice Deadspin Washington Post Daily News, and Newsweek.
1:44.3	Daniel, thanks for being with us, and is there anything in that bio you would add?
1:48.3	Good evening, gentlemen.
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