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Leslie Jamison

April 11, 2024

Leslie Sierra Jamison (born June 21, 1983)[1][2][3] is an American novelist and essayist. She is the author of the 2010 novel The Gin Closet and the 2014 essay collection The Empathy Exams. Jamison also directs the nonfiction concentration in writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
Born (1983-06-21) June 21, 1983 (age 40)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard College (AB)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
Yale University (PhD)
Period21st century
Notable worksThe Gin Closet
The Empathy Exams
Website
www.lesliejamison.com

Early life edit

Jamison was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.[1] Her parents are Joanne Leslie, a nutritionist and former professor of public health, and economist and global health researcher Dean Jamison; she is the niece of clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison.[4] Jamison grew up with two older brothers. Her parents divorced when she was 11, after which she lived with her mother.[1]

Jamison attended Harvard College, where she majored in English and graduated in 2004.[5] Her senior thesis dealt with incest in the work of William Faulkner.[6] While an undergraduate, she won the Edward Eager Memorial Fund prize in creative writing, an award also won by her classmate, writer Uzodimna Iweala.[7] Jamison was a member of the college literary magazine The Advocate and social club The Signet Society.[1]

Jamison then attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she earned an MFA in fiction,[8] and Yale University, where she earned a Ph.D. in English literature. At Yale, she worked with Wai Chee Dimock, Amy Hungerford, and Caleb Smith, submitting a dissertation titled "The Recovered: Addiction and Sincerity in 20th-Century American Literature" in 2016.[9]

Career edit

Jamison's work has been published in Best New American Voices 2008,[10] A Public Space,[11] The New York Review of Books,[12] and Black Warrior Review.[13]

Books edit

Jamison's first novel, The Gin Closet, was published by Free Press in 2010.[14] Jamison has described the book as the account of a "young New Yorker [who] goes looking for an aunt she’s never met...and finds her drinking herself to death in a Nevada trailer. They end up building a precarious but deeply invested life together, trying...to save each other’s lives."[6] It received positive reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle,[15] Vogue,[16] and Publishers Weekly.[14]

Jamison's second book, The Empathy Exams, an essay collection published by Graywolf Press, debuted in 2014 at number 11 on the New York Times bestseller list.[17] The book received wide acclaim from critics,[18][19][20][21][22] with Olivia Lang writing in The New York Times, "It’s hard to imagine a stronger, more thoughtful voice emerging this year."[23] Each essay uses a mixture of journalistic and memoir approaches that combine Jamison's own experiences and those of the people in various communities to explore the empathetic exchange between people.[24]

Jamison's third book, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, was published in 2018 by Little, Brown. Publishers Weekly called it an "unsparing and luminous autobiographical study of alcoholism."[25] It combines Jamison's memoir of her own alcoholism with a survey of others (some of them famous), with a focus on recovery.[1]

Jamison's fourth book, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, was published in 2019 by Little, Brown. It is a collection of 14 essays on the themes of longing, looking and dwelling.[26][27]

Her 2024 memoir Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story was published to positive review, focusing on her divorce and struggles raising her daughter.[28][29][30] In an interview with Vanity Fair, she said, "I love that you connected that idea of splinters and the maybe painful continuities of selfhood, the memories or parts of yourself that you can’t ever fully let go of or fully purge", referencing the idea the book was named after.[31] To promote the book, Jamison began the Splinters book tour with fellow memoirist Mary Karr in February 2024.[32]

Teaching edit

In the fall of 2015, Jamison joined the faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts.[8] She is assistant professor and director of the nonfiction concentration in writing.[33] Jamison also leads a group of Columbia University MFA students in a Creative Writing Workshop at the Marian House, transitional housing for women in recovery.[34]

Personal life edit

Jamison lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with a daughter she shares with her ex-husband, the writer Charles Bock.[35][36] She and Bock divorced in early 2020.[37]

Bibliography edit

Books edit

Novels
  • The Gin Closet (Free, 2010)
Nonfiction
  • The Empathy Exams (Graywolf, 2014)
  • 52 Blue (2014)
  • Such Mean Estate (2015)
  • The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath (Little, Brown, 2018)
  • Make It Scream, Make It Burn (Little, Brown, 2019)
  • Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story (Little, Brown, 2024)[38]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e Barrett, Ruth Shalit (March 18, 2018). "Can Leslie Jamison Top The Empathy Exams With Her Mega-Memoir of Addiction?". Vulture. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  2. ^ Jamison, Leslie (Dec 27, 2018). "So glad it's speaking to you. The world is full of newness. My middle name is Sierra, by the way. Sending my best". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  3. ^ Jamison, Leslie (Jun 24, 2018). "I had beige tortellini three nights ago and it WAS my birthday. So thank you for that reminder..." Twitter. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  4. ^ . www.graywolfpress.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-10.
  5. ^ "Alumni Feature - Harvard University Department of English". Harvard University Department of English. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  6. ^ a b "THIS BE ART: Leslie Jamison GRAD '13". Yale Daily News. April 9, 2010. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  7. ^ "Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2002 - 2003 Student Prize Recipients" (PDF). Harvard.edu. Harvard University. 2003.
  8. ^ a b "WRI An Interview with Nonfiction Professor Leslie Jamison | Columbia - School of the Arts". arts.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  9. ^ "Dissertations | English". english.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  10. ^ Best New American Voices 2008: John Kulka, Natalie Danford: 9780156031493: Amazon.com: Books
  11. ^ "Morphology of the Hit : Magazine : A Public Space". apublicspace.org. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  12. ^ "Leslie Jamison". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  13. ^ Jamison, Leslie. . Black Warrior Review. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18.
  14. ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison, Author . Free Press $25 (274p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5321-5". Publishers Weekly. November 23, 2009. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  15. ^ Watrous, Malena (2010-02-28). "A 'River' of secrets". The San Francisco Chronicle.
  16. ^ O'Grady, Megan (February 11, 2010). "Isn't It Romantic". Vogue. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  17. ^ Hertzel, Laurie (2014-04-10). "Graywolf Essay Collection Hits Best-seller List". Star Tribune.
  18. ^ Garner, Dwight (2014-03-27). "'The Empathy Exams,' Wide-Ranging Essays". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  19. ^ McAlpin, Heller (April 3, 2014). "'Empathy Exams' Is A Virtuosic Manifesto Of Human Pain". NPR. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  20. ^ Dillon, Brian (2014-05-30). "The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison – review". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  21. ^ O'Connell, Mark (2014-04-08). "The Flinch". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  22. ^ Tuttle, Kate (April 7, 2014). . The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  23. ^ Laing, Olivia (2014-04-04). "Never Hurts to Ask". New York Times.
  24. ^ "'Empathy Exams' Is A Virtuosic Manifesto Of Human Pain". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  25. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison. Little, Brown, $30 (544p) ISBN 978-0-316-25961-3". Publishers Weekly. November 13, 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  26. ^ Jamison, Leslie, 1983- (2019-09-24). Make it scream, make it burn : essays (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-316-25963-7. OCLC 1117773672.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  27. ^ Waldman, Katy (October 3, 2018). "Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  28. ^ "In 'Splinters,' Leslie Jamison explores 'space of grief and freedom'". KCRW. 2024-02-28. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  29. ^ "Leslie Jamison's "Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story"". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2024-03-01. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  30. ^ "Book Marks reviews of Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison". Book Marks. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
  31. ^ "Leslie Jamison Explores "Grief and Love All Twined Together" in Her First Memoir". Vanity Fair. 2024-02-13. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  32. ^ "The Center for Fiction Presents Leslie Jamison on Splinters with Mary Karr". The Center for Fiction. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  33. ^ "Leslie Jamison | Columbia - School of the Arts". arts.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  34. ^ "About". Marian House Blog. 2017-11-26. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  35. ^ Alter, Alexandra (2016-04-03). "In Charles Bock's 'Alice & Oliver,' Cancer Is a Highly Personal Villain". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  36. ^ Jamison, Leslie (2017-04-06). "In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  37. ^ Jamison, Leslie (26 March 2020). "Since I Became Symptomatic". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  38. ^ Jamison, Leslie (2024). Splinters. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316374880.

Further reading edit

  • Greenberg, Gary (April 2, 2018). "Leslie Jamison's "The Recovering" and the Stories We Tell About Drinking". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 7. pp. 84–89. Retrieved January 13, 2022.

External links edit

  • How Doctors Take Women's Pain Less Seriously in The Atlantic – described in an interview in The Empathy Exams

April 11, 2024
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Leslie Sierra Jamison born June 21 1983 1 2 3 is an American novelist and essayist She is the author of the 2010 novel The Gin Closet and the 2014 essay collection The Empathy Exams Jamison also directs the nonfiction concentration in writing at Columbia University School of the Arts Leslie JamisonLeslie Jamison at the 2014 Texas Book FestivalBorn 1983 06 21 June 21 1983 age 40 Washington D C U S OccupationNovelist essayist academicLanguageEnglishNationalityAmericanEducationHarvard College AB Iowa Writers Workshop MFA Yale University PhD Period21st centuryNotable worksThe Gin ClosetThe Empathy ExamsWebsitewww wbr lesliejamison wbr com Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Books 2 2 Teaching 3 Personal life 4 Bibliography 4 1 Books 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksEarly life editJamison was born in Washington D C and raised in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles 1 Her parents are Joanne Leslie a nutritionist and former professor of public health and economist and global health researcher Dean Jamison she is the niece of clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison 4 Jamison grew up with two older brothers Her parents divorced when she was 11 after which she lived with her mother 1 Jamison attended Harvard College where she majored in English and graduated in 2004 5 Her senior thesis dealt with incest in the work of William Faulkner 6 While an undergraduate she won the Edward Eager Memorial Fund prize in creative writing an award also won by her classmate writer Uzodimna Iweala 7 Jamison was a member of the college literary magazine The Advocate and social club The Signet Society 1 Jamison then attended the Iowa Writers Workshop where she earned an MFA in fiction 8 and Yale University where she earned a Ph D in English literature At Yale she worked with Wai Chee Dimock Amy Hungerford and Caleb Smith submitting a dissertation titled The Recovered Addiction and Sincerity in 20th Century American Literature in 2016 9 Career editJamison s work has been published in Best New American Voices 2008 10 A Public Space 11 The New York Review of Books 12 and Black Warrior Review 13 Books edit This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it January 2018 Jamison s first novel The Gin Closet was published by Free Press in 2010 14 Jamison has described the book as the account of a young New Yorker who goes looking for an aunt she s never met and finds her drinking herself to death in a Nevada trailer They end up building a precarious but deeply invested life together trying to save each other s lives 6 It received positive reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle 15 Vogue 16 and Publishers Weekly 14 Jamison s second book The Empathy Exams an essay collection published by Graywolf Press debuted in 2014 at number 11 on the New York Times bestseller list 17 The book received wide acclaim from critics 18 19 20 21 22 with Olivia Lang writing in The New York Times It s hard to imagine a stronger more thoughtful voice emerging this year 23 Each essay uses a mixture of journalistic and memoir approaches that combine Jamison s own experiences and those of the people in various communities to explore the empathetic exchange between people 24 Jamison s third book The Recovering Intoxication and Its Aftermath was published in 2018 by Little Brown Publishers Weekly called it an unsparing and luminous autobiographical study of alcoholism 25 It combines Jamison s memoir of her own alcoholism with a survey of others some of them famous with a focus on recovery 1 Jamison s fourth book Make It Scream Make It Burn was published in 2019 by Little Brown It is a collection of 14 essays on the themes of longing looking and dwelling 26 27 Her 2024 memoir Splinters Another Kind of Love Story was published to positive review focusing on her divorce and struggles raising her daughter 28 29 30 In an interview with Vanity Fair she said I love that you connected that idea of splinters and the maybe painful continuities of selfhood the memories or parts of yourself that you can t ever fully let go of or fully purge referencing the idea the book was named after 31 To promote the book Jamison began the Splinters book tour with fellow memoirist Mary Karr in February 2024 32 Teaching edit In the fall of 2015 Jamison joined the faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts 8 She is assistant professor and director of the nonfiction concentration in writing 33 Jamison also leads a group of Columbia University MFA students in a Creative Writing Workshop at the Marian House transitional housing for women in recovery 34 Personal life editJamison lives in Park Slope Brooklyn with a daughter she shares with her ex husband the writer Charles Bock 35 36 She and Bock divorced in early 2020 37 Bibliography editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2018 Books edit NovelsThe Gin Closet Free 2010 NonfictionThe Empathy Exams Graywolf 2014 52 Blue 2014 Such Mean Estate 2015 The Recovering Intoxication and its Aftermath Little Brown 2018 Make It Scream Make It Burn Little Brown 2019 Splinters Another Kind of Love Story Little Brown 2024 38 References edit a b c d e Barrett Ruth Shalit March 18 2018 Can Leslie Jamison Top The Empathy Exams With Her Mega Memoir of Addiction Vulture Retrieved 2018 03 30 Jamison Leslie Dec 27 2018 So glad it s speaking to you The world is full of newness My middle name is Sierra by the way Sending my best Twitter Retrieved 2022 05 04 Jamison Leslie Jun 24 2018 I had beige tortellini three nights ago and it WAS my birthday So thank you for that reminder Twitter Retrieved 2022 05 04 Video Leslie Jamison and Kay Redfield Jamison in Conversation at Politics amp Prose Graywolf Press www graywolfpress org Archived from the original on 2015 09 10 Alumni Feature Harvard University Department of English Harvard University Department of English Retrieved 2018 01 18 a b THIS BE ART Leslie Jamison GRAD 13 Yale Daily News April 9 2010 Retrieved 2018 01 18 Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2002 2003 Student Prize Recipients PDF Harvard edu Harvard University 2003 a b WRI An Interview with Nonfiction Professor Leslie Jamison Columbia School of the Arts arts columbia edu Retrieved 2018 01 18 Dissertations English english yale edu Retrieved 2018 01 18 Best New American Voices 2008 John Kulka Natalie Danford 9780156031493 Amazon com Books Morphology of the Hit Magazine A Public Space apublicspace org Retrieved 2022 05 17 Leslie Jamison The New York Review of Books Retrieved 2021 06 15 Jamison Leslie In Defense of Saccharin e Black Warrior Review Archived from the original on 2011 07 18 a b Fiction Book Review The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison Author Free Press 25 274p ISBN 978 1 4391 5321 5 Publishers Weekly November 23 2009 Retrieved 2018 01 18 Watrous Malena 2010 02 28 A River of secrets The San Francisco Chronicle O Grady Megan February 11 2010 Isn t It Romantic Vogue Retrieved January 17 2018 Hertzel Laurie 2014 04 10 Graywolf Essay Collection Hits Best seller List Star Tribune Garner Dwight 2014 03 27 The Empathy Exams Wide Ranging Essays The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2018 01 18 McAlpin Heller April 3 2014 Empathy Exams Is A Virtuosic Manifesto Of Human Pain NPR Retrieved 2018 01 18 Dillon Brian 2014 05 30 The Empathy Exams Essays by Leslie Jamison review the Guardian Retrieved 2018 01 18 O Connell Mark 2014 04 08 The Flinch Slate ISSN 1091 2339 Retrieved 2018 01 18 Tuttle Kate April 7 2014 Book review The Empathy Examsby Leslie Jamison The Boston Globe Archived from the original on 2014 04 13 Retrieved 2018 01 18 Laing Olivia 2014 04 04 Never Hurts to Ask New York Times Empathy Exams Is A Virtuosic Manifesto Of Human Pain NPR org Retrieved 2018 07 09 Nonfiction Book Review The Recovering Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison Little Brown 30 544p ISBN 978 0 316 25961 3 Publishers Weekly November 13 2017 Retrieved 2018 01 17 Jamison Leslie 1983 2019 09 24 Make it scream make it burn essays First ed New York ISBN 978 0 316 25963 7 OCLC 1117773672 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link CS1 maint multiple names authors list link CS1 maint numeric names authors list link Waldman Katy October 3 2018 Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship The New Yorker Retrieved January 13 2022 In Splinters Leslie Jamison explores space of grief and freedom KCRW 2024 02 28 Retrieved 2024 03 07 Leslie Jamison s Splinters Another Kind of Love Story Los Angeles Review of Books 2024 03 01 Retrieved 2024 03 08 Book Marks reviews of Splinters Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison Book Marks Retrieved April 8 2024 Leslie Jamison Explores Grief and Love All Twined Together in Her First Memoir Vanity Fair 2024 02 13 Retrieved 2024 03 07 The Center for Fiction Presents Leslie Jamison on Splinters with Mary Karr The Center for Fiction Retrieved 2024 03 07 Leslie Jamison Columbia School of the Arts arts columbia edu Retrieved 2018 01 17 About Marian House Blog 2017 11 26 Retrieved 2018 07 09 Alter Alexandra 2016 04 03 In Charles Bock s Alice amp Oliver Cancer Is a Highly Personal Villain The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2018 01 18 Jamison Leslie 2017 04 06 In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2018 01 17 Jamison Leslie 26 March 2020 Since I Became Symptomatic The New York Review of Books Retrieved 2020 08 24 Jamison Leslie 2024 Splinters Little Brown and Company ISBN 9780316374880 Further reading editGreenberg Gary April 2 2018 Leslie Jamison s The Recovering and the Stories We Tell About Drinking The New Yorker Vol 94 no 7 pp 84 89 Retrieved January 13 2022 External links editHow Doctors Take Women s Pain Less Seriously in The Atlantic described in an interview in The Empathy Exams Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Leslie Jamison amp oldid 1217916276, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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