Leslie Jamison
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Language
English
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A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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 the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. 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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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.
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
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"Un testimonio sobre el alcoholismo como adicción y un ensayo sobre el mito literario que lo envuelve. Un libro valiente y deslumbrante. Este es un libro sobre la adicción. Habla del alcoholismo y la lucha por salir de él; también aborda los mitos -literarios, artísticos- que lo envuelven, conectando genialidad con autodestrucción etílica. La autora empezó a beber de adolescente, pero fue durante su etapa universitaria cuando se convirtió...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From a critically acclaimed group of writers comes an essay collection about what they wish they could share with their mothers--the hilarious, the painful, the awkward, and the downright messy. Raw and poignant, this is an anthology that will resonate with anyone who's ever had a mother." -- Back cover.
"As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize...
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A collection of reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever. Just a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a "silent epidemic," but it is no longer possible to argue that the scourge of opiate addiction is overlooked. This is in large part thanks to the writings featured in this volume, which includes some of the most impactful reporting in the United States in recent years addressing the opiate addiction crisis. American...
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of short, intimate second-person essays by a diverse range of writers, each honoring a fleeting encounter with a stranger met while traveling that left a profound and lasting impact; with a foreword by bestselling author Leslie Jamison"--
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Publisher
Mariner Books, a division of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The essays in this year's Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020, giving us views into experiences unlike our own and taking us on journeys we could not take ourselves. From the lively music of West Africa, to the rich culinary traditions of Muslims in Northwest China, to the thrill of a hunt in Alaska, this collection is a treasure trove of diverse places and cultures, providing the comfort, excitement, and...
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