Escaping Time with All Our Wrong Todays
Mastai takes the predictable stakes of time travel (erasing the future, changing the past) and heightens them.
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Alexa Dooseman
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Alexa Dooseman is a freelance writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, HelloGiggles, Defenestration and other places. Find her online at www.alexadooseman.com.
Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor
Alexa Dooseman reviews Miss Emily by Nuala O'Connor today in Rumpus Books.
The Last Poem I Loved: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson realizes that hope shifts and flutters and changes within you.
The Last Book I Loved: Never Let Me Go
The problem with writing about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is that I can’t discuss the plot. A blend of science fiction and literary narrative, the novel hinges on a secret, a secret so all-encompassing and imposing, so carefully revealed, that if I were to divulge it, I would ruin the book.
That being said, here’s what I can tell you…