Leslie Jamison's first novel, The Gin Closet, was a finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize. Her second book, a collection of essays called The Empathy Exams, will be published by Graywolf in early 2014. Follow her on twitter @lsjamison
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Short Term Feelings: What Hurts About "Short Term 12"
I CRIED THREE TIMES during Short Term 12, and felt choked up — but did not fully cry — once. It’s a ...

No Tongue Can Tell: Civil War Photography at the Met
History never just happens; it’s always made. ...

Hero Without a Sequel: Charles Jackson Revisited
ldquo;I’M ABSOLUTELY HOPELESS,” Charles Jackson told an AA meeting in 1959. “I’ve written a ...

Indigenous to the Hood
On Los Angeles's Gang Tours...
