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The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act of describing.

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EAN: 9788804708346
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Espressiva commistione tra un memoir e un saggio di critica letteraria, Rinascere rivela quanto sia difficile, commovente e delicato scavare dentro se stessi senza pretendere di trovare una risposta, ma soltanto la consapevolezza che ogni dipendenza può essere vinta andando avanti «un giorno alla volta».\r\n«Invece di cercare le ragioni del suo alcolismo, Jamison ha scavato nel grande vuoto che chiunque sia affetto da dipendenza sente dentro e vi ha trovato qualcosa di profondo» - Time\r\n\r\n«Forse nessuno ha parlato della sofferenza e della ricerca di consolazione meglio di Jamison» - The New Yorker\r\nLa letteratura e la musica ci hanno abituato a pensare che non ci sia nulla di speciale nelle storie sul recupero da una dipendenza: non sono eccezionali quanto le avventure estreme e spericolate vissute durante una sbornia, non sono sagge quanto il genio creativo alimentato dall'alcol, celebrato dalla critica e acclamato dal pubblico. Anche nella storia sul recupero di una giovane ragazza americana, a prima vista, non c'è nulla di speciale, eccezionale o saggio: una studentessa che viaggia attraverso il paese per laurearsi a Harvard, frequentare uno dei migliori master di scrittura creativa degli Stati Uniti e ottenere il dottorato in letteratura a Yale; un'alcolista con disturbi alimentari che si mantiene lavorando in una pasticceria mentre scrive un romanzo e prova a convivere con lo struggente bisogno di sentirsi unica agli occhi dei familiari, dei colleghi, degli amici, del fidanzato. Quando quella ragazza partecipa alla prima riunione degli Alcolisti Anonimi nel seminterrato di una chiesa impregnato dell'odore di biscotti e caffè, capisce che non ci sono modi affascinanti per raccontare il tema del recupero. Gli sconosciuti seduti accanto a lei hanno vissuto le sue stesse esperienze e hanno provato le sue stesse emozioni: la sbornia, il furore, la sete, la vergogna, la ricaduta, l'astinenza. Il programma dei dodici passi si trasforma, così, in un cammino condiviso e comunitario per fare i conti con le proprie debolezze e imparare a essere sempre più presenti a se stessi. E si tratta di un cammino che diventa speciale, eccezionale e saggio proprio perché già vissuto, perciò utile e prezioso per chiunque trovi il coraggio di intraprenderlo. Ecco perché, quando Leslie Jamison ha deciso di pubblicare la sua storia, ha scelto di scrivere usando la prima persona plurale, facendosi accompagnare da un coro di voci segnate dalla dipendenza e dal tentativo – non sempre a lieto fine – di raggiungere la sobrietà: persone ordinarie come motociclisti, madri single, avvocati e giornalisti, ma anche noti scrittori e artisti come Raymond Carver, Billie Holiday, Amy Winehouse, Stephen King e David Foster Wallace. Espressiva commistione tra un memoir e un saggio di critica letteraria, Rinascere rivela quanto sia difficile, commovente e delicato scavare dentro se stessi senza pretendere di trovare una risposta, ma soltanto la consapevolezza che ogni...

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'Intelligent, compassionate, and so fiercely, prodigiously brave. This is the essay at its creative, philosophical best' Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries on THE EMPATHY EXAMS\n\nA profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and obsession, Make It Scream, Make It Burn is a book about why and how we tell stories. It takes the reader deep into the lives of strangers - from a woman healed by the song of 'the loneliest whale in the world' to a family convinced their child is a reincarnation of a lost pilot - and asks how we can bear witness to the changing truths of other's lives while striving to find a deeper connection to the complexities of our own.

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EAN: 9781783781539
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Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.\n\nPart memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction.

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Brand: Lynn Steger Strong
EAN: 9781398519138
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'Suspenseful, dazzling and moving' Rumaan Alam\n'Arresting and powerful' Lily King\n'Breathtakingly propulsive and insightful' Leslie Jamison\n\n It's 22 December and siblings Henry, Kate and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is their first Christmas since their mother passed. Without her once ever-present advice and gentle nudges to connect with each other when they need it most, they've grown distant. Over the course of the next three days, old resentments and instabilities arise as the siblings, with a gaggle of children afoot, attempt to perform familiar rituals while also trying to decide what to do with their sole inheritance, their mother's house.\n\n As each tries and fails and tries again to figure out how to reconcile their various needs and impulses around the house, they must also see whether they can and will remain a family without their matriarch. They are all feeling the strain but when a local child goes missing they are forced to come together, and all of them will cross a line.\n\n \nPraise for Lynn Steger Strong\n\n 'Furious, aching and razor sharp' Emma Cline\n\n 'A deeply intelligent and sneakily moving novel about having the ground fall away beneath your feet. Strong ingeniously undercuts conventional wisdom about what it means to be a success in this world' Jenny Offill\n\n 'A defining novel of our age of left-behind families... as if Anne Helen Peterson's viral burnout article and John Steinbeck's oeuvre had a baby' Vulture\n\n 'Elizabeth's anxious, raw voice ties these threads together, coalescing into a story about the price women pay for craving what's just out of reach' Time magazine\n\n 'Through Elizabeth's experiences and in her propulsive voice, the novel explores race, class, privilege, coincidence, family, friendship and love' Guardian\n\n 'A smart, sharp novel' Elle\n\n 'Strong strips away at the imbalance of advantages that ultimately injure us all and the collisions that never cease. Yet, in this stunning novel, she never loses sight of the irrepressible desire to love, connect and forgive one another' Observer

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Brand: Lauren Haldeman
EAN: 9781956046007
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\"Curious, lonely, mournful, haunted, and strangely funny.\"\n-Leslie Jamison, author of the NYT bestseller The Empathy Exams\n\n\n\nIn her extraordinary graphic novel-which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir-Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the book, where the narrator regularly encounters spectral visions of wounded soldiers and very real artifacts of war- \"wounded wraiths and faceless shapes\" float in her hallway at night, and bullet shells, buttons, and human bones surface around the soccer fields in daylight. The narrator turns to poetry and history to make sense of the town and its bloodshed, of its forever attachment to injustice and its inability to restore erased identities. Team Photograph is a journey from research to illumination, and the result is a tender yet powerful reckoning of time and place, proof that the past and the present are inexorably fused together.

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EAN: 9781474621489
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This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Simone White, Yiyun Li and Zakia Sewell.\n\nPublished to challenge the historic narrative of music and music writing being written by men, for men, This Woman's Work seeks to confront the male dominance and sexism that have been hard-coded in the canons of music, literature, and film and has forced women to fight pigeon-holing or being side-lined by carving out their own space. Women have to speak up, to shout louder to tell their story - like the auteurs and ground-breakers featured in this collection, including: Anne Enright on Laurie Anderson; Megan Jasper on her ground-breaking work with Sub Pop; Margo Jefferson on Bud Powell and Ella Fitzgerald; and Fatima Bhutto on music and dictatorship.\n\nThis Woman's Work also features writing on the experimentalists, women who blended music and activism, the genre-breakers, the vocal auteurs; stories of lost homelands and friends; of propaganda and dictatorships, the women of folk and country, the racialised tropes of jazz, the music of Trap and Carriacou; of mixtapes and violin lessons.

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EAN: 9781399609128
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'Powerful, deftly researched. A necessary and urgent deep-dive' ELINOR CLEGHORN\n'Brilliantly researched and enlightening' STYLIST, Books You Need to Know This Autumn\n'Absolutely captivating' LESLIE JAMISON\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOn Friday 24 June 2022, women's rights suffered an extraordinary and unprecedented blow. Five US Supreme Court justices made a decision that will impact millions of lives for years to come.\n\nIn this gripping blend of reportage and history, journalist Becca Andrews tells the story how we have arrived at this devastating turning point.\n\nNO CHOICE introduces the origin of abortion and its practice in global cultures, before focusing its gaze on the battle that has been waged for the past century across America, shining a light on the eerie ways in which life before Roe will be mirrored in life after. The wealthy and privileged will still have access, low-income people will suffer disproportionately, and pregnancy will be heavily policed.\n\nTaking us to the frontlines - to clinics, courtrooms, local communities, charities - Andrews tells the deeply moving stories of those who have had abortions, and those who have fought - and are fighting - for the right to abortion. There is a glimmer of faint hope, though. As the battle moves to state legislatures around the country, the book profiles the people who are doing ground-breaking, inspiring work to ensure safe, legal access to this fundamental part of healthcare.

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EAN: 9780861546497
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A heady story about a life-changing summer romance, perfect for fans of A Theatre for Dreamers and Sorrow & Bliss\n\n\n\n'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' Leslie Jamison\n\n\n\nOur narrator is twenty-four years old when she and her mother arrive in the tiny coastal town of Sailors Beach. Their holiday, she hopes, will be a pause between her life as a student and whatever happens next. Summer stretches before her: unplanned, full of possibility. And into this space walks Jude. Finding herself pulled to this man twenty years her senior she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life.\n\n\n\nThirteen years later, she happens across a photo of Jude with a child. A photo that leaves her questioning choices she has made for herself. A photo that brings back memories of a summer that changed her forever.\n\n\n\nA magnetic story of the complexities of desire, and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing, Madelaine Lucas' debut novel reveals, with stunning, sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall, shaping who we are and what we love. \n\n\n\n'A mesmerizing portrait of a romance with graceful, seductive writing.' Bustle\n\n\n\nA Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023\n\n\n\nA Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year * A DEBUTIFUL 'Best Book of 2023 Jan-June'

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EAN: 9781398519152
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'Suspenseful, dazzling and moving' Rumaan Alam\n'Arresting and powerful' Lily King\n'Breathtakingly propulsive and insightful' Leslie Jamison\n\n It’s 22 December and Henry, Kate and Martin are gathering with their partners and children at Henry and Alice’s house in upstate New York. It's the first Christmas since their mother passed and without her ever-present advice and gentle nudges to connect with each other when they need it most, the siblings have grown distant.\n\n Their differences are all too apparent, from the lives they have forged for themselves to what they each want to do with their sole inheritance: their mother’s house. As they try and fail and try again to create new picture-perfect memories, tensions and old resentments rise, but they are forced to unite when a local family calls for help.\n\n Compassionate and wise, Flight explores the meaning of family and home, and the gift of being together.\n\n\nPraise for Lynn Steger Strong\n\n ‘Furious, aching and razor sharp’ Emma Cline\n\n ‘A deeply intelligent and sneakily moving novel about having the ground fall away beneath your feet. Strong ingeniously undercuts conventional wisdom about what it means to be a success in this world’ Jenny Offill\n\n ‘A defining novel of our age of left-behind families... as if Anne Helen Peterson's viral burnout article and John Steinbeck's oeuvre had a baby’ Vulture\n\n ‘Elizabeth's anxious, raw voice ties these threads together, coalescing into a story about the price women pay for craving what's just out of reach’ Time magazine\n\n ‘Through Elizabeth's experiences and in her propulsive voice, the novel explores race, class, privilege, coincidence, family, friendship and love’ Guardian\n\n ‘A smart, sharp novel’ Elle\n\n ‘Strong strips away at the imbalance of advantages that ultimately injure us all and the collisions that never cease. Yet, in this stunning novel, she never loses sight of the irrepressible desire to love, connect and forgive one another’ Observer

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