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Leslie Jamison has written for The Believer, Harper's and The New York Times. Her latest book is The Empathy Exams.

"I sort of love imagining a small army of 22-year-old men who are just like, 'Fuck that book, I wish it was never published.'"

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Show notes:

• @lsjamison
• lesliejamison.com
• Jamison on Longform
• [9:00] The Empathy Exams (Graywolf Press • Apr 2014)
• [12:15] "La Plata Perdida" (A Public Space • Nov 2009) [sub. req'd]
• [13:15] "Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain" (Virginia Quarterly Review • Apr 2014)
• [17:00] "Is It Harder to Write About Happiness Than Its Opposite?" (New York Times • Mar 2014)
• [18:15] The Gin Closet: A Novel (Free Press • Feb 2010)
• [27:30] Autobiography of a Face (Lucy Grealy • Harper Perennial • Mar 2003)
• [43:00] "The Devil's Bait" (Harper's • Sep 2013)
• [49:00] "The Empathy Exams" (The Believer • Feb 2014)