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Description
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... read more
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“"There was one more reason I did not want to visit Duane's class, but it was too depressing to face, even in the privacy of my notebook. What if Duane's students asked if I believed writing was worth the effort? If they were as cunning as their reputations suggested, they might sense how lost I felt as a writer and realize that I had nothing to offer them. Then, I imagined, they would beat me up." p. 13”
First Sentence
Mr. Jenkins unlocked the bolt and pushed the steel-frame door to K/L unit open with his shoulder.
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- Mark Salzman (Author)
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