603. We chat with Lenore Weiss about her novel, Pulp into Paper, which “is about the struggle of Arkansas and Louisiana mill
workers to tell the truth about what is happening in their work and
personal lives. The book mirrors the choices we make between earning a
living and our ethical values, but is sympathetic to all characters on
either side of the environmental divide.” Pulp into Paper is an engaging,
disturbing and sometimes humorous novel exposing a calcified network of
corruption between a company (Rand-Atlantic) and the government (EPA) in
a small Southern town where "the stink [is] the smell of money."
Weiss's talent for detail is extraordinary as she takes us into the
homes, sandwich shops and hydrogen-sulfide infested creeks of East
Hents