An Evening with Leslie Jamison, Kenan-CDS Visiting Writer

New York Times bestselling author Leslie Jamison will give a public reading from her recent essay collection, The Empathy Exams, as part of the inaugural Kenan-CDS Visiting Writers Series.In The Empathy Exams, Jamison begins with her experience as a medical actor, paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose. Jamison¿s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about one another? How can we feel another¿s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? The Empathy Exams is a brilliant and forceful book by one of this country¿s vital young writers.Copies of The Empathy Exams will be available for sale and a brief signing session and reception will follow the talk.