SMU Gilbert Lecture Series
Compassion and Confession
Dr. Leslie JamisonNovelist & Non-Fiction Writer
SMU Hyer Building, Room 100
6 p.m. Reception, 6:30 p.m. Lecture
Abstract: What are the artistic and moral complexities of writing about other peoples’ lives? I’ll explore the obligations a writer might feel towards her subjects—the interplay between guilt and the affection, between care and skepticism--by examining my own experiences writing about long distance runners, prison inmates, whale fanatics, and medical patients. What does it mean to confess the self—in all its quandaries and questions—inside a piece of reportage? How does a piecework differently when it includes reported material alongside deeply personal reflections—when we sense the reporter as a deeply emotional presence with a story of her own?
Price
- FREE!
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