Marc Bookman is the director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation and has served in the Homicide Unit of the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He has published ess...view moreMarc Bookman is the director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation and has served in the Homicide Unit of the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He has published essays in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, VICE, and Slate, and been included in seven different editions of Best American Essays. The author of A Descending Spiral (The New Press), he lives in Philadelphia.view less