True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Vintage, August 2004. Trade Paperback. 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..... More