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Leslie Jamison erkundet die Tiefe von Verlangen, Intimität und Obsession und testet dabei auch die Grenzen ihrer eigenen Offenheit und ihres Mitgefühls für andere aus. Wie kann man empathisch über menschliche Erfahrung schreiben, ohne die kritische Distanz zu verlieren? Wie das Beteiligtsein verarbeiten, ohne der Selbstbezogenheit zu erliegen?

'An honest and helpful guide to what happens when life doesn't go according to plan. I know so many people who need this.' Elizabeth Day 'Dear Eve Simmons, your husband has applied for a divorce,' it read. All I was required to do was click the link enclosed and select if I agreed or disagreed...

A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and...

The award-winning actress presents her literary debut. An unconventional memoir in letters, Dear Mr. You chronicles Parker's life through correspondence with men from her past and imagined future and reveals the complexity and power found in relationships both loving and fraught. In conversation with Leslie Jamison ( The Empathy Exams).

In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side. Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch...