Leslie Jamison

Before she died tragically young of cancer, author Rebecca Godfrey was working on a novel about the life of Peggy Guggenheim, famous art collector. Godfrey asked her friend, fellow au...

Leslie Jamison discusses her memoir, "The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath."

Editor Manjula Martin, and authors Leslie Jamison and Alexander Chee, join us to discuss "Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living"

Psychologist Paul Bloom and Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams, explain empathy's role in human psychology, behavior, and relationships—and they look at some of the downsides of empathy.