Leslie Jamison
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Messy Endings May 08, 2024
A failing marriage often contains within it an amalgam of different feelings. It can brim with disappointment and recrimination, fiery arguments and acrimonious disdain, passive-aggression and boredom, lost hope and sexless nights. A writer’s failing...
On Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters” April 30, 2024
A woman crouches over a tiered chocolate cake in front of a tree. She wears a floor-length gown and clear platform heels. Her white acrylic nails look like talons. Her hair is matted but voluminous. She grabs chunks of the cake by the fistful, puttin...
The Liberating Frankness of the Divorce Memoir April 24, 2024
Allow me to impart some important life advice: Do not divorce, or allow yourself to be divorced by, a memoirist. Regardless of what a marital saint you were, you’re not going to come off well in the retelling—if a public reckoning with an ex’s crimes...
Leslie Jamison on Finding Peace March 05, 2024
When Leslie Jamison began publishing non-fiction books, she entertained a certain fantasy about what would happen when she allowed her work out into the world. “There was a part of me that imagined that I would, at some point, become a person who did...
Leslie Jamison Writes Into the Trouble February 23, 2024
Leslie Jamison’s memoir, Splinters, is available now from Little, Brown, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, alternative professions, and more....
