Leslie Jamison
American novelist and essayist whose The Empathy Exams is a celebrated collection of essays about illness, empathy, and female experience. Make It Scream, Make It Burn is her second essay collection. The Recovering is a hybrid memoir about alcoholism. She is one of the most admired young American literary voices.
Works
- The Gin ClosetWoman's relationship with her estranged aunt unravels trauma and family belonging
- The Empathy ExamsEssays about experimental listening, empathy, and human connection
- The RecoveringMemoir about addiction, recovery, and desire through literary and personal history
- Make It Scream, Make It BurnEssays on suffering, violence, and endurance in literature and lived experience
- SplintersEssay collection on writing, injury, death, and the body