Leslie Jamison in conversation with Kaveh Akbar
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Leslie Jamison in conversation with Kaveh Akbar
February 28 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Writers’ Workshop alum and New York Times best-selling author Leslie Jamison will read from her highly anticipated memoir,ย .ย She will be joined in conversation by Kaveh Akbar.ย โInย Splinters, Jamison offers a riveting portrait of rupture that is at once a page-turner about divorce, a romance about parenthood, a mystery of self after splintering, and a promise that however many times we break or are broken, art and love will never fail to mend us.โ โMelissa Febos
Leslie Jamisonย is the author of theย New York Timesย bestsellersย The Recoveringย andย The Empathy Exams;ย the collection of essaysย Make It Scream, Make It Burn,ย a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; and the novelย The Gin Closet,ย a finalist for theย LA Timesย Book Prize. She is a contributing writer for theย New York Times Magazine, and her work has appeared in publications includingย Theย Atlantic,ย Harperโs, theย New York Times Book Review, theย Oxford American, and theย Virginia Quarterly Review,ย among many others. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.
Kaveh Akbar isย s the author of the novelย Martyr!,ย two poetry collections:ย Pilgrim Bellย andย Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook,ย Portrait of the Alcoholic.ย ย He lives in Iowa City.