Leslie Jamison
Assistant Professor, Writing
On Leave, Spring 2021
Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestselling essay collection, and a novel, The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Oxford American, A Public Space, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, and The New York Times, where she is a regular columnist for the Sunday Book Review. Leslie was recently awarded a Lenfest Junior Faculty Research Grant. She is currently working on two books, both under contract at Little, Brown. The first is entitled The Recovering, a work of hybrid memoir, journalism, and archival research examining the relationship between addiction, recovery, and storytelling, which is slated for publication in the Spring of 2018. She is also completing a collection of essays called Ghost Essays, slated for publication in 2019.
News
'I used to insist I didn't get angry. Not anymore'
Originally published on January 17, 2018Interview and reading on August 2, 2020
Listen on The New York Times‘Since I Became Symptomatic’
March 26, 2020
Read on The New York Review of BooksThree Columbia Writers Finalists for 2020 Pen America Literary Awards
Three Columbia Writers Finalists for 2020 Pen America Literary Awards
February 10, 2020PEN America recently announced finalists for the 2020 PEN Literary Awards, and Xuan Juliana Wang '11, Professor Leslie Jamison, and Ruchika Tomar '12 are among them.
read moreColumbia Faculty and Alumni Make the Grade on NPR's Best Books List
Columbia Faculty and Alumni Make the Grade on NPR's Best Books List
December 20, 2019NPR’s prestigious end of year list includes Columbia alumni and faculty members like Tina Chang '97, Professor Rivka Galchen '06, Professor Brenda Wineapple, Professor Leslie jamison, Karen Russell '06, Professor Binnie Krishenbaum, and Lauren Wilkinson '13.
read moreLeslie Jamison Opens Cabinets of Wonder in 'Make it Scream, Make it Burn'
Leslie Jamison Opens Cabinets of Wonder in 'Make it Scream, Make it Burn'
October 9, 2019From the mystique and fate of an outlier blue whale; to the civil war photography of Matthew Brady; to the spooky appeal of a computer game that allows users to create virtual selves; to the museum of broken relationships in Croatia, Leslie Jamison’s new essay collection, Make It Scream, Make It Bur
read moreHead of Nonfiction, Leslie Jamison's New Book 'The Recovering' is Met with Praise
Head of Nonfiction, Leslie Jamison's New Book 'The Recovering' is Met with Praise
April 24, 2018Nonfiction director Leslie Jamison's new book, The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath, has been met with rave reviews from outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Associated Press, and TIME.
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“I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore.” by Leslie Jamison
On female rage.
January 17, 2018
Read more on The New York TimesAn Interview with Nonfiction Professor Leslie Jamison
An Interview with Nonfiction Professor Leslie Jamison
December 11, 2015Leslie Jamison joined the Writing Program’s Nonfiction faculty as an assistant professor this fall.
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