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Make it scream, make it burn : essays / Leslie Jamison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316259637
  • 0316259632
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Contained works:
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- 52 blue
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- We tell ourselves stories in order to live again
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Layover story
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Sim life
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Up in Jaffna
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- No tongue can tell
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Maximum exposure
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Rehearsals
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Long trick
  • Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Real smoke
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
52 blue -- We tell ourselves stories in order to live again -- Layover story -- Sim life -- Up in Jaffna -- No tongue can tell -- Make it scream, make it burn -- Maximum exposure -- Rehearsals -- The long trick -- The real smoke -- Daughter of a ghost -- Museum of broken hearts -- The quickening.
Summary: With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise.Summary: With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 814.6 J32 Available 33111009718426
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the "astounding" ( Entertainment Weekly ), "spectacularly evocative" ( The Atlantic ), and "brilliant" ( Los Angeles Times ) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book.



With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession.



Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth.



Often compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, and widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Jamison interrogates her own life with the same nuance and rigor she brings to her subjects. The result is a provocative reminder of the joy and sustenance that can be found in the unlikeliest of circumstances.



Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

One of the fall's most anticipated books: Time, Entertainment Weekly, O, Oprah Magazine, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Esquire, Seattle Times, Baltimore Sun , BuzzFeed, BookPage, The Millions, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Minneapolis Star Tribune , Lit Hub, Women's Day , AV Club, Nylon, Bustle, Goop, Goodreads, Book Riot, Yahoo! Lifestyle, Pacific Standard, The Week, and Romper.

52 blue -- We tell ourselves stories in order to live again -- Layover story -- Sim life -- Up in Jaffna -- No tongue can tell -- Make it scream, make it burn -- Maximum exposure -- Rehearsals -- The long trick -- The real smoke -- Daughter of a ghost -- Museum of broken hearts -- The quickening.

With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise.

With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth.

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