Leslie Jamison, in ‘Splinters,’ refuses to sugarcoat the rocks and barbs of a real life The author’s new memoir is about divorce, new motherhood, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

Leslie Jamison is unafraid to pillage every last corner of her personality, but the result of her most recent ransacking, “Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story,” is not quite “Ode on a ...

C all 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Leslie Jamison: I find that my mind shies away from categories … I mean, what I can say is that I think that a lot of people are doing really exciting work with essays, ...

These stories of life are what captivate writer Leslie Jamison. Her latest book, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, is a personal journey through one of the most painful and joyous times in her ...

American author and essayist Leslie Jamison has won this year’s $75,000 Weston International Award. The prize, presented by ...

Leslie Jamison: This book really began with a particular moment in my life, which was moving into this dark railroad sublet right next to a firehouse with my daughter after the end of my divorce ...

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 ...