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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#E41E26">Leslie Jamison,</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#595758"> author of </span><em><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#E41E26">The
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the author of a novel, <i>The Gin Closet</i>, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in the
<i>Believer</i>, <i>Harper's Magazine</i>, <i>Oxford American</i>, <i>A Public Space</i>, and
<i>Tin House</i>. She is also a <i>New York Times Book Review </i>"Bookends" columnist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is completing a doctorate at Yale University. Find her at <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tFiJdEEQPyTcqh6bpeOwkIcRckthcxTBtRMFqGGufW2oByAzO34iqj8UAgxIrTYN88ur0kLP0t98GFAmY89exkvhN8Zro22DBmS9jhm263B3FFF6bvJiOZhpHk96cexgiK0rMp2rXW3FC-0n2-xg6Gwo3QsDyeOl4YSTQA--gUlC3NOO4WBgKw==&c=pYy0OWlvuc88E3BNx5P5JOc3AjpY4SD3dDbMvjFMIxsIJwgw0A9AvQ==&ch=oGgV6LhEhHHL980W2DDhobnScO6xzAyTGu-I9ZHSm-Vszdld9fDfcw==" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E41E26">www.lesliejamison.com
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New York Times</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Gadling</span></em>, the Atlantic.com, <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The Wall Street Journal</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Ninth Letter</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">A
Public Space</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The New York Times Magazine</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">A Public Space</span></em>, <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The Gettysburg Review</span></em>,
and <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Creative Nonfiction</span></em>. She is the author of <i>Delaying the Real World, </i>and her essays have appeared in </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#083643"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Readings for Writers</span></em> (<em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The Kenyon Review</span></em>), and
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a work of tremendous pleasure and tremendous pain. . . . [Jamison] is fiercely intelligent, fiercely compassionate, and fiercely, prodigiously brave. This is the essay at its creative,
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">"A heady and unsparing examination of pain and how it allows us to understand others, and ourselves. . .
. Jamison is ever-probing and always sensitive. Reporting is never the point; instead, her observations of people, reality TV, music, film, and literature serve as a starting point for unconventional metaphysical inquiries into poverty, tourism, prison time,
random acts of violence, abortion, HBO's <em><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Girls</span></em>, bad romance, and stereotypes of the damaged woman artist."</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#BF8989"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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