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Unspeakable Empathy

Unspeakable Empathy

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library


Unspeakable Empathy

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Jul 23, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Leslie Jamison and Meghan DaumIn conversation with Molly Pulda, Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities, USCLeslie Jamison’s critically acclaimed The Empathy Exams confronts our personal and cultural urgency to feel. In The Unspeakable, Los Angeles Times opinion columnist Meghan Daum defiantly pushes back against the false sentimentality and shrink-wrapped platitudes that surround so much of contemporary American experience. With piercing insight and wit, hear from two of today’s most thought-provoking and intimately honest essayists, grappling with the modern complexities of being human.*Click here to see photos from the program!  
Released:
Jul 23, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

ALOUD is the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' award-winning literary series of live conversations, readings and performances at the historic Central Library and locations throughout Los Angeles.