Leslie Jamison | The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Part of Unbound
In conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson
Co-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore
Launch of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
“…there’s consolation in the fact of encountering other people’s stories.”
—Leslie Jamison
“Graceful, forensic, and intimate, The Recovering sets a new bar in addiction studies.”
—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
New York Times bestselling author (The Empathy Exams) Leslie Jamison comes to BAM to discuss her deeply personal new book The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath. Jamison’s hybrid nonfiction form uses reportage, archival research, critique, and memoir to connect the stories of writers and performers who struggled with addiction, including Billie Holliday, Denis Johnson, Amy Winehouse, and Raymond Carver.
Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy Exams. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Oxford America, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer. Her debut novel The Gin Closet was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize. Jamison lives in New York and directs the nonfiction concentration in writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
When: Tue., Apr. 3, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Where: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
30 Lafayette Ave.
718-636-4100
Price: $25 event only; $45 with book
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Part of Unbound
In conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson
Co-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore
Launch of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
“…there’s consolation in the fact of encountering other people’s stories.”
—Leslie Jamison
“Graceful, forensic, and intimate, The Recovering sets a new bar in addiction studies.”
—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
New York Times bestselling author (The Empathy Exams) Leslie Jamison comes to BAM to discuss her deeply personal new book The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath. Jamison’s hybrid nonfiction form uses reportage, archival research, critique, and memoir to connect the stories of writers and performers who struggled with addiction, including Billie Holliday, Denis Johnson, Amy Winehouse, and Raymond Carver.
Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy Exams. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Oxford America, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer. Her debut novel The Gin Closet was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize. Jamison lives in New York and directs the nonfiction concentration in writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
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