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Leslie Jamison
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an…
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Vogue, Vulture, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, The Story…
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A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent.
A blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage, Leslie Jamison excavates the stories we tell about addiction and examines what we want these stories to do, and…
Tchaw Press
In the heart of Washington, D.C., on a warm summer's day, June 21, 1983, Leslie Sierra Jamison opened her eyes to the world. The daughter of Joanne Leslie, a renowned…
From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives…
Jamie Whitehead
Leslie Sierra Jamison, a prominent American novelist and essayist, has left an indelible mark on the literary landscape through her compelling works and contributions to the world of writing. Born…
Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on…
Rebecca Godfrey
A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim-a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself-by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley…
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise.
Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war…
The best-selling essayist Leslie Jamison picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.
A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever.
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A strong and revealing essay that represents a literary milestone, putting Leslie Jamison on the same level as Susan Sontag and Joan Didion. The author writes about her own experience…
A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that…
Jamison’s auspicious debut novel is told through the voices of a young woman and her alcoholic aunt.
Ryan Spencer,Leslie Jamison
A collection of photos appropriated from films about the apocalypse. Whether sombre, gory or camp they often reach the same conclusion; that of total annihilation.
George Cain
Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
Jean Rhys
As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal. - Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My Duck
Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, T Kira Madden, Gregory Pardlo, Maggie Shipstead, and Peter Orner are among the 65 writers who grapple with this mystery: How can…
William Shakespeare,Marcel Dzama
Set in an enchanted forest, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the ideal subject for artist Marcel Dzama, whose work frequently references dreams, fairy tales, and mythical worlds.
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This diverse collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand. Their varied approaches-literary and cultural, historical and political, scientific and artistic-exemplify how his biographies…
Colleen Kinder
When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger who haunts you, she opened the floodgates. These short, insightful essays by some of…
