Animating Tension: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison

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 addiction, relationships, and other big, messy ideas. Her […] The post Animating Tension: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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