21 results for '"Leslie Jamison"'

"For fans of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, Sinéad Gleeson's essays chronicle-in crystalline, tender, powerful prose-life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of...

From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about...

“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from...

A reissue of Susan Sontag’s classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing—on art, life, camp, and criticism—that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and...

"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever." ...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring...

From Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, thirty brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic--and occasional misery--of living in the Big Apple, in a new edition of the...

Darcey Steinke, acclaimed author of Flash Count Diary and Suicide Blonde, explores the world of pain for those who suffer and those who love them. One-fifth of Americans live in chronic pain. In some...

A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman...

"From the acclaimed author of Goodbye, Sweet Girl, a memoir in essays focusing on the longer-lasting effects of trauma, challenging a culture in which violence against women is normalized, and...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine)...

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year“A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of...

“The searing strokes of this book remind me of the infinitude inside every life.” —Leslie JamisonParis Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune’s 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club’s...

A poignant, moving essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of You Exist Too Much. Fewer...

Taut and spellbinding, Immersions by Kyle McCarthy follows the aftermath of a celebrated dancer's abrupt decision to quit her company and join an enclosed convent in France, and her younger sister's...

From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy...

A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley...

"Spellbinding." —Booklist, starred review • "A must-read." —Library Journal "Poetic." —Emma Straub • "This is writing as spell-casting and archival longing." —Leslie JamisonA memoir of the Cuban...

A New Yorker best book of 2024 | A Financial Times Best Translated Book of 2024Library Science September book club pick | A Vulture most anticipated bookOne of The New York Times’ 24 works of fiction...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE DECADE"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment...