August 28, 2014
Meditation on Leslie Jamison’s THE EMPATHY EXAMS (and beyond…) (Part Four of Six)
(Continued from Part Three) When Jamison describes her experience of driving into the state—a moment more crucial than it might initially seem, because this essay, like The Empathy Exams as […]
August 28, 2014
Meditation on Leslie Jamison’s THE EMPATHY EXAMS (and beyond) (Part Three of Six…)
(Continued from Part Two) Ultimately, Jamison gets so much about West Virginia right: the spellbinding beauty “honeycombed” with corruption beneath its surface, and how “People with political influence and powerful […]
July 31, 2014
Meditation on Leslie Jamison’s THE EMPATHY EXAMS (Part Two of Six)
[Continued from Part One] Earlier, I almost took off on a tangent, using a fairy-tale metaphor to describe Jamison’s initial reaction to West Virginia. I loosed my mind on some […]
July 31, 2014
Meditation on Leslie Jamison’s THE EMPATHY EXAMS (Part One of Six)
In “Fog Count,” an essay in The Empathy Exams that spun out of her trip to visit a friend incarcerated in West Virginia, Leslie Jamison describes how she falls, weak-kneed, […]