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Appealing to readers of The Yellow House and The Men We Reaped, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Nicole R. Fleetwood shares her personal story of moving up and out of a forgotten Rust Belt town and into the prestigious halls of academia, interrogating how her ascension is in stark contrast to the...

Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author's own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions - including solitary confinement - these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls.