HomeTrue Notebooks A Writer's Year in Juvenile Hall Mark Salzman 2004 Paperback
True Notebooks A Writer's Year in Juvenile Hall Mark Salzman 2004 Paperback
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Format:Trade PaperbackNumber of Pages:352 PagesReviews:"Extraordinary. . . . Everything about this book seems perfect." - San Francisco Chronicle "Fresh, galvanizing and articulate . . . a narrative that asks as many questions as it answers. Cogent, thoughtful and honest." - The New York Times "One cannot read. . . and not be stirred . . . As moving as it is sparse, as revealing as it is concealing, as straightforward as it is complex." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Engaging. . . . Salzman creates a cast of lively, convincing, and hugely sympathetic characters and True Notebooks is filled with powerfully moving scenes." - O, The Oprah Magazine, "Extraordinary. . . . Everything about this book seems perfect." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fresh, galvanizing and articulate . . . a narrative that asks as many questions as it answers. Cogent, thoughtful and honest." -The New York Times "One cannot read. . . and not be stirred . . . As moving as it is sparse, as revealing as it is concealing, as straightforward as it is complex." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "Engaging. . . . Salzman creates a cast of lively, convincing, and hugely sympathetic characters andTrue Notebooksis filled with powerfully moving scenes." -O, The Oprah MagazineIntended Audience:TradePublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-10:0375727612Author:Mark SalzmanBook Title:True Notebooks : a Writer's Year at Juvenile HallDewey Edition:21Synopsis:In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake , paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.#146;s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing., In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake , paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing., When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes-expecting the worst-and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself.Item Weight:10.2 OzGenre:Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Education, Biography & AutobiographyTopic:Personal Memoirs, Composition & Creative Writing, Sociology / Urban, Criminology, Teaching Methods & Materials / GeneralItem Length:7.9 inDewey Decimal:808/.042/071079494Item Width:5.1 inLC Classification Number:PS572.L6brand:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupItem Height:0.8 inLanguage:Englishgtin13:9780375727610Publication Year:2004ISBN-13:9780375727610
This book is a powerful and moving read—Mark Salzman’s firsthand account of teaching writing to incarcerated teens is raw, honest, and deeply human. The stories shared by the kids are heartbreaking yet hopeful, and Salzman’s compassion shines through every page. A must-read for anyone interested in youth, justice, or the transformative power of writing.
This book is a powerful and moving read—Mark Salzman’s firsthand account of teaching writing to incarcerated teens is raw, honest, and deeply human. The stories shared by the kids are heartbreaking yet hopeful, and Salzman’s compassion shines through every page. A must-read for anyone interested in youth, justice, or the transformative power of writing.