Leslie Jamison's latest book explores the facets of her identity and how each helps inform her art. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-03-22 10:00:00 UTC ]
Leslie Jamison’s new memoir Splinters follows the aftermath of divorce and the awakening of motherhood, but it explores desire more than it does any kind of death. Jamison wants to make meaning, to connect, to love, to feel, to mother, to write, and to revise her life endlessly. There are losses... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-03-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
It’s another Tuesday, and that means that a bevy of beautiful new books are out. And it’s a brilliant bevy indeed: below, you’ll find twenty-three new titles to consider that span an incredible range, including a raw new memoir from Leslie Jamison on motherhood and the self; the esteemed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-02-20 09:46:58 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Splinters, the first memoir from Leslie Jamison, the bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, coming from Little, Brown early next year. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: Leslie Jamison has become one of our most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-06-07 14:00:32 UTC ]
This week on The Maris Review, Leslie Jamison joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest collection, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, now available in paperback from Little, Brown. On how it’s okay to be obsessed with yourself: Leslie Jamison: I love how serious and passionate that my students are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-09 09:48:36 UTC ]
LESLIE JAMISON IS NO STRANGER to tough questions. In fact, she’s undyingly attracted to them. Her three previous works — the novel The Gin Closet (2010), the essay collection The Empathy Exams (2014), and the memoir The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (2018) — all deal explicitly with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-03 12:30:39 UTC ]
Hello readers! I’m L.A. Times books editor Carolyn Kellogg — welcome to this week’s newsletter. THE BIG STORY With her last book “The Empathy Exams,” Leslie Jamison proved herself to be one of our most interesting thinkers. Now she turns to a familiar topic in “The Recovering: Intoxication and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: new books from Meg Wolitzer, Tracy K. Smith, Leslie Jamison, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Prepare for the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair with our roundup of big projects that'll be making the rounds, among them books by Leslie Jamison, Richard Price, Amy Poehler, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leslie Jamison’s collection of nonfiction essays about pain, "The Empathy Exams," is hitting a nerve in more ways than one: the April 1 Graywolf Press release is landing on bestseller lists and has gone into a sixth print run. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]