“I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.” PeopleKindFeelingsFormNeededEmpathySuperlatives Book:The Empathy Exams: Essays Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays
“When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all: I’m trying to dissolve the borders between memoir and journalism and criticism by weaving them together.” PeopleWritingTryingKindMeanTogetherAsksCriticismMemoirAll KindsJournalismBordersNonfictionWeaving Author:Leslie Jamison
“I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.” ThinkingKindCuriosityCollectionsOfferingCabinetsDemeaningCuratorObjectifying Author:Leslie Jamison
“Sometimes I do feel exposed. I have this kind of theory about different channels or levels of relaying experience - when I tell someone, one on one, in a personal context, about something that's happened to me - that has a very different valence, a different charge, than when/if I've said it in a public forum.” IfsFeelsKindSaidDifferentSometimesLevelsHappenedTheoryExposedForumsOne On One Author:Leslie Jamison
