Leslie Jamison and

  • January 22, 2019
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 CST
  • Corboy Law Center - 10 Floor Ceremonial Courtroom
  • Erin Hammons, ehammons@luc.edu
  • Complimentary
  • Open to the public.
  • www.bit.ly/JamisonFAN
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    Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the Family Action Network are pleased to host Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams, The Gin Closet, and The Recovering. The Recovering 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 do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill.

    Ms. Jamison is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestseller, and the novel The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and her work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Harper's, and the New York Times Book Review. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.

    REGISTER HERE: Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the Family Action Network are pleased to host Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams, The Gin Closet, and The Recovering. The Recovering 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 do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill.

    Ms. Jamison is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestseller, and the novel The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and her work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Harper's, and the New York Times Book Review. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.

    REGISTER HERE: www.bit.ly/JamisonFAN