“A blazing memoir . . . feels like an immediate hit and a forever classic.”
―Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of Lit and The Liar’s Club
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, and the complex. The New York Times best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams joins us in a program exclusive to ALOUD about her new memoir, Splinters, the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage — an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
Jamison will be in conversation with award-winning author and professor Sarah Manguso.
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Featured Author and Moderator:
Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams; the collection of essays Make It Scream, Make It Burn; and the novel The Gin Closet; a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She writes for numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper’s, and the New York Review of Books. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.
Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, most recently the novel Very Cold People, which was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, as well as a story collection, two poetry collections, and four acclaimed works of nonfiction: 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Her novel Liars is forthcoming in July 2024. Her work has been recognized by an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize, and her writing has been translated into 12 languages. She teaches Creative Writing at Antioch University.
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This program will take place at the Los Angeles Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071. Click here for a list of public transportation options.
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