Choose Your Own Adventure with Leslie Jamison

Mishka Shubaly Podcast

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Leslie Jamison is the New York Times bestselling author of two essay collections—The Empathy Exams and Make it Scream, Make it Burn—as well as a critical memoir, The Recovering, and a novel, The Gin Closet. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and teaches at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

We talk about writing from the hypnagogic state, dreams, regrets, cleaning up the feces of your child/pet, and also her brilliant recent piece for The New Yorker about the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, which you can read here.