Leslie Jamison’s speech on writing about personal experiences. “If you honor the complexity of your own life—if you grant us entry into moments that hold shame or hurt or heat, and if you’re willing to follow that heat, to feel out where all the small fires burn, then your readers will trust you.”
The Possibilities of the Personal
Leslie Jamison | Nieman Storyboard | October 23, 2015 | 3,600 words
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