In 2001, at twenty-four, after spending much of my adolescence and young adulthood as a drug dealer, I shot and killed a man on a Brooklyn street. I was convicted and sentenced to twenty-eight years to life. I learned how to write in Attica, in a creative-writing workshop. I learned to live with what I […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/09/peddling-darkness-edgar-smith-scoundrel-weinman/