Novelist Melanie Sumner hosts Geo Cooper, a seventy-something year old writer who has transformed a violent life into a serene one. With wry humor and the quintessential literary reference, Mr. Cooper reveals a life transformed –– from that of a drug dealer in turbulent 1970's in Miami, Florida, to the serene existence of a novelist in Taos, New Mexico. In the interview and subsequent on-the-air freewrite, Geo uncovers his first memory as the childhood victim of "dogpile," his deepest feelings about his one–true–love, Bonnie, who he met when he was fifty-three, and how he feels about his work in the Miami drug trade. He has regrets, but in a post-freewrite comment, he reveals something shocking...