Featuring new books by Eliza Barry Callahan '22, Emmeline Clein '22, and Leslie Jamison, Writing. Moderated by Chloé Cooper Jones, Writing.  

How can crisis make us more attuned to the world in all its texture and strangeness? How can illness, silence, heartbreak, and hunger summon sharpened forms of attention and wanting? How do we get close to other people when things go wrong? How can losing one radio frequency make you hear new rhythms in the world? Join Associate Professors of Writing Leslie Jamison (Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story) and Chloé Cooper Jones and recent alumnae of the Writing Program Eliza Barry Callahan '22 (The Hearing Test) and Emmeline Clein '22 (Dead Weight) as they discuss their new books, as well as the difficulties and thrills of writing into pain, curiosity, oddity, cultural scripts, female archetypes, and daily life. Both Clein and Callahan worked with Jamison during their time at the Columbia MFA program, where they were classmates in her thesis workshop, and their conversation will also investigate the rich and complicated bonds that form between teachers and students, as well as how art gets forged through and despite the strange alchemical spaces of classrooms. 

With ASL interpretation.

Books available for purchase by Book Culture.

Co-presented by Book Culture and School of the Arts Writing Program.

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