by Mark Salzman
Salzman finds himself teaching writing to the high-risk inmates at a juvenile prison. Wrenching, gritty and real, this book has an immediacy that reached out and pulled me in. The kids are engaging, and like Salzman, sometimes I forgot that they were murderers and thieves. Salzman's self-deprecating...
Mark Salzman is one of the authors I'd have never found on my own. He is unusual in that he writes both fiction and nonfiction equally well. True Notebooks opens with Salzman having trouble with a character in a novel he's writing. Almost before he realizes it, he somehow finds himself teaching a cl...
The good news is it's not the heart-warming cliche you might fear. Far from it. Salzman tracks his year, and the writing that emerges from it, and it is pretty amazing, but not at all in a hokey TV movie sort of way.
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