Fascinating letter from one of the editors that works with Martha Stewart, Margaret Roach, about Martha's stay in prison, and her homecoming. It's an excellent study in presentation! First of all, brilliant choice of words, "homecoming". Roach uses the word "prison" twice, which I thought was fantastic, but then after that called it "the facility" or "Alderson". And entirely without irony she presents Martha making do with the prison microwave, foraging for dandelion greens in the prison yard, starting and teaching a yoga class, crocheting -- what had been the too-easy jokes of everyone from Leno to your hairdresser for the past two years. It sounds so genuine, so heartfelt, I suspect it is the real McCoy, and certainly it is admirable to remain as optimistic as Martha apparently has. I mean, imagine.

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