Kelly McEvers talks to Leslie Jamison, author of the new essay collection, The Empathy Exams: Essays. The book takes the writer on a quest to figure out how others feel empathy.
Author Leslie Jamison says that as an emotional response, empathy is always perched precariously between gift and invasion. Her new book of essays is called “The Empathy Exams.” In it, she writes about prisoners, medical students, extreme runners and ex-boyfriends.
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It’s all part of her quest to understand
how others feel empathy and how
she can feel it, too.
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