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Clare Bucknell: Guggenheim’s Bohemia, 10 October 2024

Peggy: A Novel 
by Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison.
John Murray, 366 pp., £18.99, August, 978 1 4736 0574 9
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... two sections of a novel. At the request of her widower, her friend, the essayist and novelist Leslie Jamison, undertook 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 ...

Get a Brazilian

Maggie Doherty: Millennial Memoirists, 13 September 2018

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 
by J.D. Vance.
William Collins, 257 pp., £9.99, June 2017, 978 0 00 822056 3
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath 
by Leslie Jamison.
Granta, 544 pp., £20, May 2018, 978 1 78378 152 2
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How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir 
by Cat Marnell.
Ebury, 384 pp., £7.99, February 2018, 978 0 09 195736 0
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Everything I Know about Love 
by Dolly Alderton.
Fig Tree, 336 pp., £12.99, February 2018, 978 0 241 32271 0
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America 
by Morgan Jerkins.
Harper Collins, 272 pp., £10.99, February 2018, 978 0 06 266615 4
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Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials 
by Malcolm Harris.
Little Brown, 272 pp., £18.99, February 2018, 978 0 316 51086 8
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Educated: A Memoir 
by Tara Westover.
Hutchinson, 385 pp., £14.99, February 2018, 978 1 78633 051 2
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... 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 ...

I suppose I must have

Sophie Lewis: On Gaslighting, 1 August 2024

On Gaslighting 
by Kate Abramson.
Princeton, 217 pp., £20, May, 978 0 691 24938 4
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... 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 ...

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