“Yearning is our most powerful narrative engine, and addiction is one of its dialects,” Leslie Jamison writes in “The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath” (Little, Brown). It’s a ...

Literature is full of books that glorify addiction, not so many about recovery. The novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison takes on sobriety in her new book "The Recovering" - her own sobriety and ...

and our first writer of the evening is Leslie Jamison, award-winning essayist and author of The Empathy Exams, reads from her memoir The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, as well a new ...

Call Leslie Jamison a narcissist and she’ll shrug ... Interviews she gave for her last book The Recovering (2018) painted such an Insta-perfect picture of her post-alcohol life as a wife ...

But it also can really work for people. In her book “The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath,” writer Leslie Jamison explains how the AA-instilled belief that she was simply not in ...

That was the conundrum Leslie Jamison faced when completing Rebecca ... Make It Burn” and her unflinching memoirs “The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath” and “Splinters ...

The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath ... Maybe you can read it too and we will all join hands and run away and form a Leslie Jamison fan club. [ Make it Scream, Make it Burn: Essays ...

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger Leslie Jamison gives this advice to her non-fiction writing ... an essay collection on the theme of understanding, and The Recovering, an autobiographical study of alcoholism – ...

The essayist Leslie Jamison has become known for her careful ... about her excessive drinking and an abortion, and in “The Recovering” she shared an unvarnished account of her path to sobriety.