"seeing the opportunity in tomorrow": An Interview with Jason Mott

(2011), and he was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.1 Mott's most recent novel, The Crossing, was released in 2018.2 The novel follows two runaway orphaned twins, Virginia and Tommy, as they journey to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch of a probe that will explore Jupiter's moon Europa...

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Published in:North Carolina literary review 2019-01 (28), p.36-42
Main Author: Larson, Jennifer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art and life
Creative writing
Dramatic characterization
Motion pictures
Mott, Jason
Mythology
Novels
Sibling relations
Twins
Writers
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Summary:(2011), and he was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.1 Mott's most recent novel, The Crossing, was released in 2018.2 The novel follows two runaway orphaned twins, Virginia and Tommy, as they journey to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch of a probe that will explore Jupiter's moon Europa. [...]I'd argue that he might have been the most layered and complicated character in the novel. [...]the novel seems very focused on the science of some of the novel's key events. [...]the quintessential end-of-interview question:
ISSN:1063-0724
2165-1809