Episode 368: Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy Exams, The Recovering, and the novel The Gin Closet. Her new essay collection is Make It Scream, Make It Burn.\n\n\u201cMy writing is always basically asking: what does it feel like to be alive, and how do we ever try to understand what it feels like for anybody else to be alive? In that sense, on the intellectual level, I\u2019m always going to keep chasing the same unanswerable things.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp, Pitt Writers, Mythology for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\n\n\n\nApply to the University of Pittsburgh's Writing Program\n\n\n@lsjamison\n\n\nlesliejamison.com\n\n\nJamison on Longform\n\n\nLongform Podcast #92: Leslie Jamison\n\n\n[05:19] \u201d52 Blue\u201d(Atavist \u2022 2014)\n\n\n[16:17] \u201cIn the Shadow of a Fairy Tale\u201d (New York Times Magazine \u2022 2017)\n\n\n[32:20] \u201cA24 is Making Limited-Edition Books for Ex Machina, The Witch, and Moonlight\u201d(The Verge \u2022 2019)\n\n\n[33:33] The Empathy Exams (Graywolf Press \u2022 2014)\n\n\n[33:54] The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (Little, Brown \u2022 2018)\n\n\n[51:46] \u201cGiving Up the Ghost\u201d (Harper's \u2022 2015)\n\n\n[54:08] \u201cSim Life\u201d (The Atlantic \u2022 2017)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices