Snatching time for a video link interview between teaching classes at Columbia University, perky, perceptive Jamison tells me she’s keenly aware that a divorce memoir might come off as a writer’s ...

The Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate held a reading of her new novel in conversation with Kaveh Akbar in Prairie Lights Bookstore on Feb. 28. Known for her prose, Jamison’s “Splinters” is her first ...

I can’t stand blue cheese but I’m pretty sure if Leslie Jamison wrote a book about it, I would: a. read it, b. love it and c. seriously reconsider my long-standing Gorgonzola bias. That’s a shorthand ...

The publicity materials for “Splinters” call it Leslie Jamison’s first memoir, but most readers of “The Recovering,” her majestic and harrowing 2018 book about addiction, would call that a memoir too.

There may not be a writer alive whose self-consciousness and writerly anxieties prove more generative than Leslie Jamison’s. To read the best-selling essayist (and Columbia University writing teacher) ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Splinters shares this preoccupation with the sanctity of the everyday. It picks up ...

One of the leading nonfiction writers of her generation, Leslie Jamison will speak in Columbia next month at an event presented by The Missouri Review. Jamison's appearance Oct. 9 at the University of ...

Call Leslie Jamison a narcissist and she’ll shrug. “It’s a word that often gets thrown against memoirists like me,” says the New York Times bestselling author. “The rise of the memoir is often taken ...