Review: He just headlined the Super Bowl halftime show and won album of the year at the Grammy Awards.
But Bad Bunny’s biggest achievement is what “P FKN R” spends 300 pages outlining: his ability to couple celebration with activism. https://wapo.st/3NTlsIR
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“It often felt as though there were two different shows unfolding — one for America and one for América,” Petra R. Rivera-Rideau and Vanessa Díaz write.
If you want to learn more about Bad Bunny’s music and activism, have to recommend this new book P FKN R. It’s awesome. I learned so much:
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🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to the co-founders of the "Bad Bunny Syllabus," Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau about Bad Bunny’s music and activism.
❓How has Bad Bunny’s music and activism made an impact on you?
📻Listen:
Petra Rivera-Rideau, co-author of the Bad Bunny Syllabus and the new book P FKN R, says the Puerto Rican artist often wields joy as resistance.
We're both excited and sad that one of the last book reviews in the Washington Post is this terrific one of our new book "P FKN R" by Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...
It's #pubday for "P FKN R" by Vanessa Díaz & Petra R. Rivera-Rideau! You can read an excerpt in @rollingstone.com: buff.ly/Dk034ts #BadBunny
And save 30% on the book with coupon E26PFKNR.
Want to learn something new in the new year? Check out these deep-dive books from 2025 — nonfiction that will lead you to fresh discoveries about big tech, true crime and the ground beneath our feet.
have I mentioned I’m working on a book about Bad Bunny? I’m working on a book about Bad Bunny, and it’s a banger. 🇵🇷
Out from @dukepress.bsky.social right before the Grammy’s and the Super Bowl!
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Today's episode of Opening Arguments with Christopher Blackwell is our 2nd interview with an incarcerated author in as many months. I am so proud to be part of a show that is committed to sharing the human voices of those harmed by our most inhumane law & policy
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AND NPR’s “Books We Love” 2025!
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I’m usually pretty cynical of end-of-year lists… that is, until one of my books is chosen 😉
Thrilled to see THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME by prison writer John J. Lennon in the @nytimes.com’s 100 Notable Books of 2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
What we’re reading this week. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/the-tragedy-of-true-crime-splendid-liberators-the-land-in-winter-flop-era
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Proud to see that two of our favorite author interviews each made the NYT Best Non-Fiction list this year!
Well-deserved congratulations to John J. Lennon (The Tragedy of True Crime, OA1210) and Professor Michelle Adams (The Containment, OA 1198)
In a new book, John J. Lennon presses two cases: that his is a work of legitimate journalism, and that his journalism makes him something more than a killer, Elizabeth Bruenig writes:
Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records by Joshua Clark Davis
Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.
here’s a great piece by @lisapeet.bsky.social about the unconventional book tour for John J. Lennon’s THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME. Over the past several years, John has showed me almost anything is possible from prison. Why not a book tour, then?
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New pod, check your feeds! Brooke speaks with John J Lennon, an incarcerated journalist serving time at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, about his new book "The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us."
Riveting interview.
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For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about John J. Lennon's THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME, which provides a challenging and bracing reckoning with guilt and the possibility of changing the narrative of one’s life: newrepublic.com/article/2010...
“It always jarred me to see joy like that in prison, as if part of our punishment was that we weren’t allowed to feel it.” Prison journalist John J. Lennon on exploitative entertainment and life in Sing Sing.
“Impressive … Lennon’s ambition is not to turn human suffering into spectacle, but to restore complexity to his own story and those of the men around him.“ @pamelacolloff.bsky.social’s sensitive and admiring review of THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME.
@vauhinivara.bsky.social talks to John J. Lennon about the sensationalism of true crime and the reality of being human in prison.
"If private companies are allowed to profit off us, then we should also be allowed to use the same tech to earn money consulting, freelancing, and doing real work." A new essay from John J. Lennon in @fastcompany.com.
Don't miss his virtual event with us on 10/8: www.harvard.com/event/john-j...
If you live in LA, Miami, Chicago, DC or Boston, you know what you should do? You should go hear John J. Lennon talk about his extraordinary new book The Tragedy of True Crime. (Stay tuned for events in New York, too.)
"A nuanced biography... and a scathing criticism of the media ecosystem that launders tragedy into entertainment."
THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME is a @nytimes.com pick for Fall nonfiction
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...
heheh 🤪
You’ll notice in the article there is no graduation year after my name 😢😢
dude tried to tell me I was making the worst career mistake of my life when I left HUP for an agency (“where publicists go to die”) & implied I should be so lucky to work at Harvard lol very convincing argument my man (I left & took the $30K salary increase)
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“I wanted to become a writer, an artist, something more than this guy who was reckless and killed someone. Literature was a good place to start.”
An excellent essay by incarcerated writer Robert Lee Williams in LitHub
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