Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison is among our most beloved contemporary voices, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. In Splinters, her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of her most intimate relationships: new motherhood, a ruptured marriage, and the shaping legacy of her own parents ...
About Leslie — Leslie Jamison
About Leslie. I was born in Washington DC and grew up in Los Angeles. Since then, I've lived in Iowa, Nicaragua, New Haven, and (currently) Brooklyn. I've worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, a juice barista, a GAP clerk, and a medical actor. Every one of these was a world; they're still in me.
Splinters — Leslie Jamison
In Splinters, Leslie Jamison is unstinting in her assessment of marriage gained and lost, of motherhood held close, and of loving oneself in the process, all conveyed with her unsparing and attentive eye.” —Esmé Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias “Jamison’s genius—a word I use without ...
The Empathy Exams — Leslie Jamison
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed?
Make It Scream, Make It Burn - Leslie Jamison
Donna Seaman, Booklist "Leslie Jamison is a writer of supreme eloquence and intelligence who deftly combines journalistic, critical and memoiristic approaches to produce essays that linger long in the memory."
The Gin Closet — Leslie Jamison
Jamison is not just marching to the beat of her own drum. She is banging out a brutal, ecstatic symphony upon it. The Gin Closet dares readers to understand how and why we abrade our bodies, ourselves, to manifest the incommunicable to one another.”
Events & Contact - Leslie Jamison
May 1-2 -- Sarah Lawrence College, Visiting Writer. May 8 -- Spoken Interludes, Hastings-on-Hudson. May 15--Caltech University, Visiting Writer. June 2, In Her Voice Festival, Toronto, Canada. June 9-10--Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers' Workshop, Denver CO. June 18 -- New York Public Library (Midtown Branch), with Cutter Wood
Essays - Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison. Books; Essays; Events & Contact; Archive Fever; On Female Rage. On sad ladies, Tonya Harding, & burning down the estate. Read it at the New York Times Magazine. Ways to Escape. On running cross-country, being shy, and being drunk at Denny’s. Read it at Vogue. On Writing and Recovery.
The Recovering — Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction—both her own and others’—and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us.
On Writing and Recovery — Leslie Jamison
On bonfires, Dream Songs, and getting better. Read it at the New York Times Magazine.