Leslie Jamison

LitStaff Recs: The Empathy Exams & Three Parts Dead

The Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison The Empathy Exams blends memoir, literary, cultural and moral investigation, and its essays are rich, astute, and candid. This is Jamison’s second book (following a 2011 novel The Gin Closet), winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize that went on to the New York Times bestseller list. Jamison [….]

LitStack Recs: The Empathy Exams & The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy

The Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison 2014 is being called the year of the essay, due to the extraordinary stream of collections it has brought — Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering, Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, Meghan Daum’s The Unspeakable among them—showing the personal essay in a range of styles and voices and demonstrating the elasticity of [….]

Birthdays

On this day, July 6, in 1952, Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, UK. Although she appeared to burst on the scene in 2009 when her historical novel Wolf Hall was awarded the Man Booker Prize, she already had 9 other books under her belt and had been the recipient of many other literary honors prior to its publication. Still, with Wolf Hall becoming an acclaimed PBS television series, and with its follow up, Bring Up the Bodies also winning a Man Booker Prize (in 2012, making Ms. Mantel the first woman to win two of those prestigious awards), her name will most likely be linked with Thomas Cromwell for the rest of her career. The third book in the historical trilogy, titled The Mirror and the Light, was published earlier this year. Today, Ms. Mantel turns 69.

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