August 1, 2010
Writing Behind the Wall
Teaching prison writing, where prisoners live
Two college seniors and nine convicted felons fill desks in what might be an elementary classroom on the bad side of town: ragged curtains, cranky heat register, stained ceiling. The convicts, all men, wear sweats in state-issue green. The students (I'll call them Tyler and Lisa) wear the dress-down cool of American undergrads. Tonight we're discussing a story by George Saunders, then examining a new draft of an essay by one of the men, Radman. His essay, based on a real incident, describes a
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