Orange Is the New Black Resources

Websites

Black and Orange

Piper Kerman's website is now a one-stop shop for everything book and show related.

Prison Wishlist

Piper's friend's website, the Pipe Bomb, is still up! It even has a link to Piper's Amazon wish list, which includes Virginia Woolf (a cell of one's own!) and the Odyssey.

Movie or TV Productions

Netflix is the New HBO

The official Netflix site has trailers, interviews, and everything you need about the much more dramatic (and attractive) television adaptation of the memoir.

Articles and Interviews

Better than the Prison Salon

In this interview with Salon.com, Kerman says, "more people have experience with the criminal justice system than people assume." How'd she know about our criminal past?

Whose Story Is It?

Piper Kerman, a prisoner with a literary agent, says, "It wasn't even so much my own story […] but the people I met along the way who would probably never have this opportunity." She definitely got the message out there.

Prison Tales

Larry's magazine ran an interview with Piper in which she talks about how she remembered so many details without a journal or tattooing them onto her arm with a ballpoint pen.

Video

After Words

This is probably the only time you'll watch C-SPAN and not fall asleep.

If It's Broke, Try to Fix It

We're number one! We're number one! Oh wait… we're number one in incarceration rates in the world… that's not something to cheer about.

TED Goes to Jail

A TEDx talk? More like a TEDx-con talk, by former convict and memoirist Piper Kerman.

Audio

Stale Air

Kerman talks about the not-so-fresh air in prison with Terry Gross.

Season Two

With season two of the show hitting the Netflix, Kerman continues her advocacy for prison reform.

Prisoners, They're Just Like Us

Kerman's memoir was the "Talk of the Nation" even before the Netflix show came out.

Images

Love Behind Bars

Here are the real Piper and Larry… post jail time.

As Seen on TV

Taylor Schilling isn't an inmate, but she plays one on television. Here she is with the real ex-con, Piper Kerman.

From Nora to Alex, with Love

The Netflix series takes the line "impossibly stylish and cool lesbian" to the next level with Laura Prepon's portrayal of Nora-turned-Alex Vause.