#  Leslie Jamison in Conversation with James Wood 

 



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 **October 1, 2019** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall**  



 

 



 

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 **Leslie Jamison** recently published her new book, a collection of essays called *Make It Scream, Make It Burn*, in September 2019. She's also written a novel, *The Gin Closet*, a collection of essays, *The Empathy Exams*, and a critical memoir, *The Recovering*. Her work has appeared in places including *The New York Times Magazine*, *Harper's*, *Oxford American*, *A Public Space*, *Virginia Quarterly Review*, and *The Believer*. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.

 **James Wood** has been a staff writer and book critic at *The New Yorker* since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. He was the chief literary critic at the *Guardian*, in London, from 1992 to 1995, and a senior editor at *The New Republic* from 1995 to 2007. His critical essays are collected in “The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief”; “The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and “The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays.” He is also the author of the novel “The Book Against God” and a study of technique in the novel, “How Fiction Works.” His latest novel, “Upstate,” was published in June, 2018. He is a professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard University.

 *Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. There will be a book sale in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall 114 after the lecture.*



 

 



 

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