The 7th Avenue Project

Jill Wolfson: On Getting Even, High School and Writing for Teens


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Jill Wolfson was last on the show discussing the Beat Within writing program for incarcerated teens. Jill has also written extensively on juvenile justice, crime and retribution as a journalist and non-fiction author, and those themes figure prominently in her latest young adult novel, "Furious." Inspired by Greek myth and the tragedies of Aeschylus, it's about three high school girls who become modern incarnations of the avenging Furies. We talked about the challenges of writing for the "YA" audience, the wages of revenge, the indelible impress of high school and Jill's own teen years.
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