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Leslie Jamison

Autor(a) de The Empathy Exams: Essays

12+ Works 2,022 Membros 71 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Leslie Jamison was born in Washington D.C. in 1983. She has worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, and a medical actor. She is the author of The Gin Closet and The Empathy Exams: Essays. She is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation at Yale University about addiction mostrar mais narratives. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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The Best American Essays 2014 (2014) — Contribuinte — 166 cópias
The Best American Essays 2018 (The Best American Series ®) (2018) — Contribuinte — 113 cópias
The Best American Essays 2020 (2020) — Contribuinte — 89 cópias
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger (2019) — Contribuinte — 78 cópias
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (2021) — Prefácio; Contribuinte — 61 cópias
The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 (2019) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias

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Didn't capture me, so I returned it. At this moment in time, I have pretty much no interest in reading journalistic essays from the perspective of a privileged intellectual immersing herself in places where she's an outsider and examining the experience of doing so. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with this exercise, I just feel as if I've read (and experienced) this narrative too many times to learn much from it. I'd rather hear from different voices.
 
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raschneid | outras 37 resenhas | Dec 19, 2023 |
The first story in the collection was STRONG. And I mean really strong. I expected each following essay would be equally as profound, however as the book progressed I found myself bored and frustrated. While it is evident that Jamison is an excellent writer, I often felt like her narcissism plagued each scenario at hand.
 
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cbwalsh | outras 37 resenhas | Sep 13, 2023 |
Two smart readers recommended this title, so I expected to love it. Not so much. The title essay = absolutely the price of the book, or in my case, the time to check it out of the library. A couple of the other essays came close to the elegance and insight of the title piece. Mostly, I struggled with the sense that I should be impressed. Good writing is difficult to produce but effortless to read. The hard work of this intelligent writer flagged page after page to the point of distraction -- the writerly work rather than the content stole the spotlight.

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rebwaring | outras 37 resenhas | Aug 14, 2023 |
3.7
Essays. Some really made my brain work and a couple at the end were not for me.
 
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Mcdede | outras 8 resenhas | Jul 19, 2023 |

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Obras
12
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10
Membros
2,022
Popularidade
#12,713
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
71
ISBNs
61
Idiomas
7
Favorito
1

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