Leslie Jamison

With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage, this audiobook turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction, both her own and others', and examines what we want these stories to...

Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.

With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. "With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's...

"American epidemic collects, for the first time, the key works of reportage and analysis that provide the best picture available of the origins, consequences, and human calamity associated with the epidemic."--Page [4] of cover. "A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever"-- The opioid crisis used to be referred to as a "silent epidemic" but the writings featured in this volume are some...

Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.