The 2022 Look Back Special

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A prison librarian thought he just had to keep track of books until he started reading between the lines. And a young girl in San Francisco discovers something about her mother that turns a secret she's keeping into a burden.

It’s time to Look Back before we move forward. Happy Holidays to all you Snappas! We are so grateful for you.

STORIES

Secrets in the Stacks

When Avi Steinberg became a prison librarian, he thought his job would be to keep track of the books. Then he started reading between the lines.

To learn more about Avi’s time behind bars -- and between the stacks -- be sure to check out his books: Running The Books and The Lost Book of Mormon, which was nominated for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Produced by Joe Rosenberg

Weed Brownies

At school, Alia Volz was a weird kid without a lot of friends. She had a secret… after school, she’d go home and help her mom make and sell weed brownies all over San Francisco. But one day, Alia discovered something about her mom’s business that turned her secret into a burden that was far more painful than she could have imagined.

This story contains the mention of drug use, sensitive listeners please be advised.

Thank you, Alia, for sharing your story with Snap! See more of Alia’s work.

Produced by Shaina Shealy, original score by Doug Stuart

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 13 - Episode 42

Transcript

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0:00.0	Snap, judgment, studios.
0:13.4	I have a friend who in high school, perhaps as a test of loyalty.
0:18.6	He let me in on a family secret with no warning whatsoever.
0:23.4	We're sitting there in their living room, playing Pac-Man on the Atari, talking high school
0:29.2	kids stuff, and precisely 531PM.
0:34.2	His father, a large, very large, ruddy red face man, he strolls into the room carrying
0:40.2	a tiny wooden stool and a large sheet of plastic.
0:45.5	He nods to us.
0:47.2	Boys.
0:48.2	And then he proceeds to first lay down the plastic and he sits on this stool all the while.
0:56.2	He is naked as a jay bird in the springtime.
0:59.2	And I don't know what to do.
1:00.2	Wait, look, I try to keep my eyes on the Pac-Man, but his mother, she comes in, smiling
1:06.4	as if everything in the world is precisely as it should be.
1:10.4	She takes a spray bottle filled with some sort of oil I'm thinking I don't know, but she
1:16.3	sprays this large man down like he just pulled into a car wash.
1:22.4	And one when should I run from this place, she begins rubbing oil into his skin with these
1:29.0	firm, practice, needing hands while he grunts and nods with satisfaction.
1:35.0	And she stops.
1:38.0	She walks away to the loo to lay.
1:40.9	He takes a moment, considers, stands up, rolls up the plastic, picks up the stool and leaves
1:47.9	the room.
	...

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