Leslie Jamison

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

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 film about troubled teenagers in a communal foster-care facility, so it’s no surprise it made me feel. It was ...

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No Tongue Can Tell: Civil War Photography at the Met

History never just happens; it’s always made. ...

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Hero Without a Sequel: Charles Jackson Revisited

ldquo;I’M ABSOLUTELY HOPELESS,” Charles Jackson told an AA meeting in 1959. “I’ve written a book that’s been called the definitive picture of the alcoholic, and it did me no good.” It ...

LESLIE JAMISON

Indigenous to the Hood

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