Leslie Jamison
Tuesday, April 29 | 7:00 PM Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Leslie Jamison joins authors Jessica Hendry Nelson and Valeria Luiselli for a discussion of the essay and its many forms.
Leslie Jamison's new essay collection The Empathy Exams, received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Her debut story, "Quiet Men," was published in APS 3. More details here.
Leslie Jamison
wrote the New York Times bestseller The Empathy Exams which includes her much-heralded essays in A Public Space, VQR, Harper’s, the Believer, and other magazines, and it won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Jamison is also the author of the novel The Gin Closet (2010).
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