https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/mpl/rss/search?query=Jamison%2C%20Leslie&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeSun, 11 Oct 2026 12:18:57 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7477805https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7477805Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7477805075BKIntoxication and Its Aftermathenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316259613/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction—both her own and others'—and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill.
At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are.
For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.]]>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3391106https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3391106Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3391106980EBOOKIntoxication and Its Aftermathenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316259620/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8002471https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8002471Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8002471075BKIntoxication and Its Aftermathenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316259583/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9766720https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9766720Invalid Datehttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9766720075BKundhttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316375184/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C4662894https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C4662894Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4662894075BKEssaysenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555976712/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8672529https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8672529Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8672529075BKAnother Kind of Love Storyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316374880/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C1647043https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C1647043Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1647043075BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781439153215/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection.
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain―real and imagined, her own and others'―Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory―from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration―in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.]]>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C12163249https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C12163249Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12163249980EAUDIOBOOKEssaysenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668655085/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9681969https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9681969Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9681969075EAUDIOBOOKAnother Kind of Love Storyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668620359/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=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 Keough and Lily Gladstone
“Godfrey brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde adventurer Peggy Guggenheim as a feminist icon for our times.”—Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
“Magnificent . . . Readers will be won over by Godfrey’s incandescent portrait of a singular woman.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She’s in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here: iconoclast and independent woman.
Rebecca Godfrey’s Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father perishes on the Titanic. His death prompts Peggy to seek a life of passion and personal freedom and, above all, to believe in the transformative power of art. We follow Peggy as she makes her way through the glamorous but sexist and anti-Semitic art worlds of New York and Europe and meet the numerous men who love her (and her money) while underestimating her intellect, talent, and vision. Along the way, Peggy must balance her loyalty to her family with her need to break free from their narrow, snobbish ways and the unexpected restrictions that come with vast fortune.
Rebecca Godfrey’s final book—completed by her friend, the acclaimed writer Leslie Jamison, following Godfrey’s death in 2022—brings to life the woman who helped make the Guggenheim name synonymous with art and genius.]]>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10290368https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10290368Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10290368980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593741504/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7374460https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7374460Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7374460075BKEssaysenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316259637/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction—both her own and others'—and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill.
At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are.
For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.]]>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3758537https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3758537Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3758537980EAUDIOBOOKIntoxication and Its Aftermathenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781478903253/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9681901https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9681901Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9681901075EBOOKAnother Kind of Love Storyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316375085/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8039798https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8039798Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8039798075BKla adicción y sus repercusionesspahttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788433964564/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7957381https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7957381Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7957381075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393357806/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8203242https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8203242Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8203242075BKEssays to the Ones Who Haunt Usenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781643751245/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9574488https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9574488Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9574488075BKCollected Diaries, 1978-1998enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780553387490/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7378680https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7378680Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7378680075BKReporting From the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisisenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781620975190/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7380544https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7380544Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7380544075BKFifteen Writers Break the Silenceenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982107345/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8173527https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8173527Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8173527075BKEssays on Musicenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780306829000/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8029595https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8029595Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8029595075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525567325/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C4578682https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C4578682Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4578682075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781940450186/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=