We are HUGE fans of Leslie Jamison here at Skylark, and are very excited that she will be coming to Columbia, courtesy of our friends at the Missouri Review, on October 9 to discuss Splinters, her astonishing new memoir of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage. It’s an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love, and it will blow you away.

This conversation will be a behind-the-scenes look at the editing and publishing of Splinters, and is the next installment in the Missouri Review’s Miller Conversations on Literary Publishing.  It is open to the public and takes place at Memorial Union, 518 Hitt Street. Attendance is free but you must reserve tickets here. They will be made available on September 2, but we suggest that you go to the page and click on the “Remind Me” button.

You really won’t want to miss this talk. Jamison is one the best and most interesting writers working today and it is sure to be a fascinating evening. Space is limited.

Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams; the collection of essays Make It Scream, Make It Burn, a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; and the novel The Gin Closet, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and her work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times Book Review, the Oxford American, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among many others. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.