Leslie Jamison was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Los Angeles. She has worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, and a medical actor. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa’s Workshop, she 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. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the Oxford American, among others, and she is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
«Nada humano me es ajeno», dice una célebre sentencia de Terencio que abre este libro. Los ensayos aquí agrupados abordan asuntos variopintos, pero están férreamente unidos por un nexo común: la experiencia del dolor vivida por uno mismo y observada en los demás, lo que lleva al...
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