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April 3, 2014 leslie jamisons new book of essays, the empathy exams, combines the intellectual and the emotional to explore the humanizing effect of empathy. Her essays have appeared in the believer, harpers, oxford american, a public space, tin house, and the best american essays. Kelly mcevers talks to leslie jamison, author of the new essay collection, the empathy exams. Listening with empathy microsoft library overdrive. Intellectually rigorous, its also plainly personal, honest and intimate, cleareyed about its confusions. Jamison pokes so deeply into the idea of empathy that she is able to raise questions about empathy we wouldnt expect. She is the author of the gin closet and the empathy exams. From personal loss to phantom diseases, the empathy exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the graywolf press nonfiction prize a publishers weekly top ten essay collection of spring 2014. She has worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, and a medical actor. Several researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the relationship between empathy and literature. Im fluent in the symptoms of preeclampsia and asthma and appendicitis.
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