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Leslie Jamison on Make It Scream, Make It Burn

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“In the summer of 1929, after completing his freshman year at Harvard, James Agee headed west to spend a few months working as a migrant farm hand,” reads Leslie Jamison from her essay collection Make It Scream, Make It Burn (Little, Brown, 2019) in this 2019 Harvard University event with writer and critic James Wood.

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Creative Nonfiction
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Leslie Jamison
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Little, Brown
2019
Harvard University
James Wood

James Wood

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"Home swells as a sentiment because it has disappeared as an achievable reality." James Wood, literary critic for the New Yorker and a professor of practice at Harvard University, reads from The Nearest Thing to Life, a collection of essays from the Mandel Lectures in Humanities, a book series published by Brandeis University Press.

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Creative Nonfiction
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2015
Politics and Prose Bookstore
lecture
essay collection
James Wood
The Nearest Thing to Life
Brandeis University Press
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