A Conversation with Leslie Jamison – Chicago Review of Books

A Conversation with Leslie Jamison – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Leslie Jamison’s Empathy Exams came to me nestled amidst a pile of Little Debbie’s Fudge Rounds—gifts my friends had chosen to soothe the pain of my recent miscarriage. I had no expectations of Jamison when I left my first chocolate smudges on the covers of her debut essay collection. My lack of preparation made … Read more

A Conversation with Leslie Sainz – Chicago Review of Books

A Conversation with Leslie Sainz – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Have You Been Long Enough at Table, a debut poetry collection by Leslie Sainz, bubbles over with poetic range. There are sonnets and prose poems and ghazals and a narrator grappling with her Cuban American identity and family history of immigration and displacement. The poems bring the reader to the table covered in ancestral … Read more

Read a sneak peek of THE BONE SPINDLE by Leslie Vedder!

Read a sneak peek of THE BONE SPINDLE by Leslie Vedder!

[ad_1] Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling fairytale retelling for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and The Cruel Prince. Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, who definitely doesn’t believe in true love. Shane is a tough-as-dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her … Read more