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Title	:	True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Author	:	Mark Salzman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	August 31st 2004 by Vintage (first published January 1st 2003)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Language. Writing. Education. Adult

True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
ISBN:	0375727612 (ISBN13: 9780375727610)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2004)

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As I mentioned previously, this book is required reading for my college English class. I don't have to read it until a bit more into the semester, but thought "Might as well get it over and done with".To be quite honest, this book was weird, but there was something oddly compelling about it. Famous Writer (I'd never heard of him), goes to juvenile hall, connects with students, and has a "Helen Keller moment". Sounds trite. But it wasn't. The author reprints essays and poems that the boys in his

Interestingly, I met Salzman as he was writing this book. He was giving a workshop at my college and when discussing his current projects, he spoke glowingly of a book he was writing about his experiences as a writing teacher in the prison system. Most of us in the room, perhaps motivated by once having proximity to a real, established author, rushed to read the book when it came out. However, the reaction was more tepid than anything else. Something about "True Notebooks" felt pre-tread and

I loved this book. I've never read anything else by Salzman and to be honest, none of his other work (I've read just a brief synopsis of each of his other books) particularly jumps out to me as something I'd be really into. However, I love how he presented this experience to the reader, and that he shared it at all, since obviously teen prisoners, particularly low-income minorities, are not a group that gets much of an outlet or voice. The students in his class are depicted so vividly yet subtly

I like Mark Salzman. I love his daring way of writing about just about anything. He seems like a nice guy on paper and in the documentary his wife made that features him ("Protagonist"). But this book felt like a terrible mis-step to me. Here's why I think so.Salzman tries to paint himself in True Notebooks as the opposite of that neo-neo-colonial cliche'. The last thing he wants to be in this book is the civilized white guy coming in to save the natives, or to exploit the natives. Salzman the

i've liked Salzman's work since Iron and Silk--he knows just where to put the entrance ramp to this new society he's going to introduce you, he chooses just the right details, knows how to toss a few balls in the air and keep them all up there until the right moment to let them down.he's an excellent craftsman.in this book, he tells the story of a year of volunteer writing instruction at the local juvenile hall. the individual kids' stories are crushingly sad, of course--sort of an endless river

A story of a young English teacher visiting a class at L.A Central Juvenile Hall, young teens locked up for violence and other charges like murder. He was inspired and very interested and he wanted to teach regularly. He voices indelible emotional presences. The four main boys who took part in the beginning of the book were Mark, Antonio,Rashaad,Toa they all were in for different reasons. The boys were assigned to a notebook where they write about their life and theyre experiences and how they

I've enjoyed Mark Salzman's novels and was excited to read this book about his experience teaching a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall. This book doesn't have a complex plot but I could have kept reading more. Salzman lets the incarcerated young men unfold their own stories. He's not an overt advocate and doesn't claim that they're innocent, but we do meet young men who generally had a bad start in life, and who want the opportunity to do better going forward. Unfortunately, most are