Sober perspective: Author Leslie Jamison’s new memoir goes deep on artist-addicts, AA, and recovery


“To me the most compelling stories will always be those investigating the complexity of emotional experience, what it feels like to be alive,” says Leslie Jamison, who will read from The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath at New Dominion Bookshop on January 18.

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