Leslie Jamison
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Un testimonio sobre el alcoholismo como adicción y un ensayo sobre el mito literario que lo envuelve. Un libro valiente y deslumbrante. Este es un libro sobre la adicción. Habla del alcoholismo y la lucha por salir de él; también aborda los mitos -literarios, artísticos- que lo envuelven, conectando genialidad con autodestrucción etílica. La autora empezó a beber de adolescente, pero fue durante su etapa universitaria cuando se convirtió...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of short, intimate second-person essays by a diverse range of writers, each honoring a fleeting encounter with a stranger met while traveling that left a profound and lasting impact; with a foreword by bestselling author Leslie Jamison"--
When Colleen Kinder put out a call to writers to answer the question "what stranger haunts you?", she knew she had opened the floodgates. The responses, short and addictive, all in the form of letters,...
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A collection of reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever. Just a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a "silent epidemic," but it is no longer possible to argue that the scourge of opiate addiction is overlooked. This is in large part thanks to the writings featured in this volume, which includes some of the most impactful reporting in the United States in recent years addressing the opiate addiction crisis. American...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From a critically acclaimed group of writers comes an essay collection about what they wish they could share with their mothers -- the hilarious, the painful, the awkward, and the downright messy. Raw and poignant, this is an anthology that will resonate with anyone who's ever had a mother." -- Back cover.