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“... and had largely completed the first two sections of a novel. Her friend the essayist and novelist Leslie Jamison was asked to finish it, drawing on dictated notes, sketched scenes and indications from Godfrey as to where she had wanted the final section to lead: Peggy’s return to Paris in the late 1930s and her affair with the young Samuel ...”

“... as benign or pitiable – a cause for concern, or a shrug, rather than a punishment,’ writes Leslie Jamison in The Recovering, a memoir of addiction that doubles as a cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘If you are grossed out by “white girl privilege” (who isn’t?), you might want to bail now,’ warns Cat Marnell, the author of How to ...”

“... ever before are using the term ‘gaslit’ to talk about media norms and cultural hegemonies. As Leslie Jamison notes in the New Yorker, ‘the popularity of the term testifies to a widespread hunger to name a certain kind of harm.’ The term can be used cynically, of course, and its application questioned, but it usefully encompasses such PR and ...”