In her best-selling essay collection The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison explored the moments where we choose to look. Now, in Make It Scream, Make It Burn, Jamison examines the moments where, compelled by longing and obsession, we cannot look away. Covering subjects as diverse as the world’s loneliest whale, the community formed around an online role-playing game, and her own elopement in Las Vegas, Jamison’s essays capture, with clarity and compassion, the overwhelming power of want. In conversation, Jamison will discuss the origins of desire, the ways we succumb to or try to fend it off, and how, ultimately, what we yearn for makes us who we are.

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