Doing Time: Essays on Using People, Kristian Vistrup MadsenTo write about someone else means both to expose and transform them. This is thedilemma of writing that Janet Malcolm describes as morally indefensible. In Doing Time: Essays on Using People, Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael. Over several years, this spawns a series of reflections about the politics of solidarity and appropriation, but also about writing itself and what