When Leslie Jamison got sober she wanted to know how a life lived without alcohol would affect her writing.
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Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?
In this excerpt from her book, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, Leslie Jamison recalls how in the early days of recovery, she examined the work of newly-sober writers like John Berryman and Charles Jackson for clues about how sobriety would affect her as a writer. It wasn’t until she read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from May Jeong, Leslie Jamison, Irina Dumitrescu, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Matt Wake.
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Cataloguing the Detritus of Relationships Past
Essayist Leslie Jamison visits Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships.
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The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were
Essayist Leslie Jamison visits the Breakup Museum in Zagreb, Croatia — created in 2003 after founders Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić ended their relationship — and considers what stories are told by the objects we shared with former loved ones.
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Reclaiming Our Rage
Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Sabine Heinlein, Leslie Jamison, Ijeoma Oluo, Eric Newcomer with Brad Stone, and Jill Lepore.
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I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore.
An essay examining women’s long-standing conditioning away from owning and expressing anger, instead often sublimating their rage in sadness, which has historically been more acceptable.
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Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
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Second Life: A World that, for Some, Allows Full Participation
Second Life offers both escapism and a refuge for its hard-core digital denizens.