The essayist Leslie Jamison has become known for her careful ... These days, she lives with a partner in Brooklyn and splits the week between what she calls “outward”-facing days teaching ...

Jamison’s husband lost his first wife to cancer ... which also has a love story in it. My former partner read the draft twice, and he was able to offer additional layers of perspective on ...

I can’t stand blue cheese but I’m pretty sure if Leslie Jamison wrote a book about it, I would: a. read it, b. love it and c. seriously reconsider my long-standing Gorgonzola bias. That’s a ...

When Leslie Jamison's daughter was 13 months old, she and her husband, the baby's father, C, separated. Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, the famed essayist's newest book, follows this ...

Call Leslie Jamison a narcissist and she’ll shrug. “It’s a word that often gets thrown against memoirists like me,” says the New York Times bestselling author. “The rise of the memoir is ...

This intimate memoir explores the contradictions of being a parent, a partner and an artist – singly, and all at once. By Ellen Peirson-Hagger Leslie Jamison gives this advice to her non-fiction ...

By Leslie Jamison When I was 25 ... Underneath, I wrote what saying no had made room for: more time with my partner. More time at home. More time to write. More time to call my mother and ask ...

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Where Ms Winter’s book seeks excitement in marriage by transgressing its borders, Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters” opens with a divorce. The memoir starts in the office of a divorce lawyer ...