Learning to read in prison

This episode is about Robin Woods, an inmate serving sixteen years in prison, who decides he’s going to read a book for the first time in his life. The book is Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, and Woods has to regularly consult a dictionary as he goes. This habit turns him into the closest of close readers, and one day Woods finds an error in Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. He writes to the encyclopedia editor, and the two strike up a long and complicated friendship. Neither man will ever be the same.