[Yale-readings] MARCH 28: Leslie Jamison and Colleen Kinder

[Kuhl, Nancy]

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Please join us for a joint reading by
Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams,
and Colleen Kinder, author of Delaying the Real World

Friday, March 28
7:00 PM

Yale University
St. Anthony Hall
483 College St
New Haven, CT

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Leslie Jamison is the author of a novel, The Gin Closet, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in the Believer, Harper's Magazine, Oxford American, A Public Space, and Tin House. She is also a New York Times Book Review "Bookends" columnist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is completing a doctorate at Yale University. Find her at www.lesliejamison.com <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tFiJdEEQPyTcqh6bpeOwkIcRckthcxTBtRMFqGGufW2oByAzO34iqj8UAgxIrTYN88ur0kLP0t98GFAmY89exkvhN8Zro22DBmS9jhm263B3FFF6bvJiOZhpHk96cexgiK0rMp2rXW3FC-0n2-xg6Gwo3QsDyeOl4YSTQA--gUlC3NOO4WBgKw==&c=pYy0OWlvuc88E3BNx5P5JOc3AjpY4SD3dDbMvjFMIxsIJwgw0A9AvQ==&ch=oGgV6LhEhHHL980W2DDhobnScO6xzAyTGu-I9ZHSm-Vszdld9fDfcw==> or @lsjamison<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tFiJdEEQPyTcqh6bpeOwkIcRckthcxTBtRMFqGGufW2oByAzO34iqr8VAigD4nXDQ9yntF0HxeEUf2uToIOg8EA_-U5wI6RkxqGkgXGQgwcEny1Hp3PhOOBRwGQ5ZGSHu3vNFObpD45YTZ286UT-qbo0V-xDl4TNOO-7-kLHnADbLA0QsUh0TQ==&c=pYy0OWlvuc88E3BNx5P5JOc3AjpY4SD3dDbMvjFMIxsIJwgw0A9AvQ==&ch=oGgV6LhEhHHL980W2DDhobnScO6xzAyTGu-I9ZHSm-Vszdld9fDfcw==>.


Colleen Kinder has written essays and articles for The New Republic, Salon, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Gadling, the Atlantic.com, The Wall Street Journal, Ninth Letter, A Public Space, The New York Times Magazine, A Public Space, The Gettysburg Review, and Creative Nonfiction. She is the author of Delaying the Real World, and her essays have appeared in
The Best American Travel Writing 2013, Readings for Writers (The Kenyon Review), and
20-Something Essays by 20-Something Writers.



Praise for The Empathy Exams:

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"[A] stunning collection. . . . A profound investigation of empathy's potential and its limits."
--Cosmopolitan, "10 Books by Women You Have to Read This Spring"



"The Empathy Exams is a book without anaesthetic, 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,
philosophical best."

--Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries,
winner of the Man Booker Prize



"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 Girls, bad romance, and stereotypes of the damaged woman artist."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review, "Pick of the Week"

"Leslie Jamison has written a profound exploration into how empathy deepens us, yet how we unwittingly sabotage our own capacities for it. . . . This riveting book will make you a better writer, a better human."
--Mary Karr, author of Lit

"Jamison carries forward the fierce and empathic tradition as practiced by writers she names as mentors, most resonantly James Agee and Joan Didion."
--Booklist, starred review

"These essays--risky, brilliant, and full of heart--ricochet between what it is to be alive and to be a creature wondering what it is to be alive. Jamison's words, torqued to a perfect balance, shine brightly, allowing both fury and wonder to open inside us."
--Nick Flynn, author of
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City



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