Selected Essays | Leslie Jamison on Charles D’Ambrosio
The Point Podcast
Chapters
1:55
When Leslie first read "Documents" and met Charles D’Ambrosio
4:45
Summarizing "Documents"
6:04
Leslie reads the opening passage
8:25
D'Ambrosio's attention to detail
11:42
Economy of style?
15:23
Leslie reads another passage
23:20
The structure of the essay
27:57
Following the wondering
36:30
"The Empathy Exams"
41:02
D'Ambrosio's influence
51:03
Looking back at "The Empathy Exams" ten years later
The Point Podcast
Selected Essays | Leslie Jamison on Charles D’Ambrosio
Jun 27, 2023
Season 1
Episode 8
The Point Magazine
On this episode of The Point podcast series “Selected Essays,” Leslie Jamison joins us to discuss Charles D’Ambrosio’s 2002 essay “Documents” and her essay “The Empathy Exams,” which appeared in The Believer in 2014 and was the title of her first collection.
