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Leslie Guttman is an independent journalist and freelance writer whose work has appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, Salon, Orion, and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she worked on staff for over a decade. Her awards include being honored by the Society of Professional Journalists for outstanding journalism. She's also worked as an editor at Wired magazine, and her public radio commentary has been broadcast nationally on Marketplace.

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Part 4 of Marching Orders: Released from prison

26 Oct 2009, 10:14 AM

On Thursday in Part 3 of this excerpt from the new book Equine ER , Marching Orders, the stoic Thoroughbred with the big heart, ran into trouble in the operating room. Today, we look further at the prison farm program where an inmate's life was transformed by Marching Orders. From the outside, Blackburn Correctional Complex looks like a former boy’s school – old-fashioned brick buildings with tall...

Part 2 of Marching Orders: The inmate

19 Oct 2009, 9:55 AM

News flash! Equine ER author Leslie Guttman will be signing books at Keeneland Racecourse this Sunday 10/25 at the gift shop from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Last week in Part 1 of the excerpt from the chapter entitled Marching Orders from the new book Equine ER we met Marching Orders, a former racehorse, as he headed into surgery. In Part 2 today we meet the inmate whose life was transformed by the stoic Thoroughbred...

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