Episode 94
Episode 92: Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison has written for The Believer, Harper's and The New York Times. Her latest book is The Empathy Exams. "I sort of love imagining a small army of 22-year-old men who are just like, 'Fuck that book, I wish it was never published.'" Thanks to
May 14, 201455m 36s
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Show Notes
Leslie Jamison has written for The Believer, Harper's and The New York Times. Her latest book is The Empathy Exams.
"I sort of love imagining a small army of 22-year-old men who are just like, 'Fuck that book, I wish it was never published.'"
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Show notes:
@lsjamison
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Jamison on Longform
[9:00] The Empathy Exams (Graywolf Press • Apr 2014)
[12:15] "La Plata Perdida" (A Public Space • Nov 2009) [sub. req'd]
[13:15] "Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain" (Virginia Quarterly Review • Apr 2014)
[17:00] "Is It Harder to Write About Happiness Than Its Opposite?" (New York Times • Mar 2014)
[18:15] The Gin Closet: A Novel (Free Press • Feb 2010)
[27:30] Autobiography of a Face (Lucy Grealy • Harper Perennial • Mar 2003)
[43:00] "The Devil's Bait" (Harper's • Sep 2013)
[49:00] "The Empathy Exams" (The Believer • Feb 2014)
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