Episode 275 — Leslie Jamison

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2014

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Leslie Jamison is the guest. Her new collection of essays, entitled The Empathy Exams, is now available from Graywolf Press. The New York Times Book Review calls it "Extraordinary and exacting....This capacity for critical thinking, for a kind of cool skepticism that never gives way to the chilly blandishments of irony, is very rare. It's not surprising that Jamison is drawing comparisons to Sontag....There is a glory to this kind of writing that derives as much from its ethical generosity, the palpable sense of stretch and reach, as it does from the lovely vividness of the language itself....It's hard to imagine a stronger, more thoughtful voice emerging this year." And Phillip Lopate, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle, says "[Jamison] writes consistently with passion and panache; her sentences are elegantly formed, her voice on the page intimate and insistent. Always intelligent, self-questioning, willing to experiment with form, daring to engage with the weird and thrust herself into danger spots, a patient researcher and voracious processor of literature and critical theory, she is the complete package: state-of-the-art nonfiction." Monologue topics: mail, cheering up, the struggle, expressing the subterranean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do? But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends, she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow and a mortgage to suit. Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boot.
0:23.3	Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready.
0:26.5	Experian.
0:27.5	Better your score.
0:28.7	Better your story.
0:30.1	Hey, everybody.
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1:13.4	Audible.com slash other people.
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1:23.7	Go and get some.
1:25.8	Oh, my God.
1:36.0	You are not alone you have found other people you and i have a friend in common every stupid thing that a writer could do i've done i think it's really beautiful
1:40.9	jesus stated what i struggle you know it was incredible you, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Just one person at just one time. Right. All right, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is invisible to the naked eye. This is an accident not waiting to happen. How are you?
2:03.7	Do you like that dramatic pause? I'm Brad Listy. I'm here in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you.
2:08.3	It's good to be in your headspace. My guest today is Leslie Jameson. I'm very excited about this.
2:13.9	She has a new book out. It's a book of essays, available now from Grey Wolf Press.
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