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The essays in Leslie Jamison's new "Make Information technology Scream, Make It Burn down" are fabulously quirky and anarchistic.

We come across a globally idolized whale, reincarnated children and online avatar junkies in a simulated web earth where anyone can get a billionaire, an island owner or a parent of triplets.

While the topics are adventurous, the nonfiction collection tackles the all-likewise-man topic of yearning and its ofttimes-corollary, obsession. Both gurgle below the writer's sonorous and captivating prose.

The author of "The Recovering" and "The Empathy Exams," Jamison is a alloy of memoirist, critic and journalist. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Los Angeles, she runs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University. She writes not apart or from a distance but upwards close and personal, pirouetting the "I" — what I felt, what I heard, what I thought, what I saw — to great effect.

In 14 essays, she takes us through the valleys of Longing, Looking and Habitation to a place of ultimate connexion.

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The first essay, "52 Blue," showcases a solo whale dubbed "the loneliest whale on earth." Immortalized in a New York Times story, the whale wanders the Northward Pacific waters "singing" an abnormally loftier-pitched sound, a seemingly endless, pining journeying that attracted solitary-hearts fans the world over during the 1990s.

"The natural world has always offered itself every bit a screen for human projection," Jamison writes near those who conflated their lives with the giant mammal's.

"The Romantics called this the pathetic fallacy. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it 'intercourse with heaven and earth.' Nosotros project our fears and longings onto everything we're not — every beast, every mountain — and in this fashion we make them somehow kin. It's an act of humbling and longing and claiming all at once. Oftentimes, we're not even aware that we're doing it."

Nosotros see that yearning, too, in the book'due south next section, Looking, where Jamison explores the act of documentation — specifically Civil State of war photography ("No Natural language Can Tell"), the Sri Lankan Civil State of war ("Up in Jaffna") and America'southward Southern poor ("Arrive Scream, Make It Burn").

But we run across obsession steer toward the pathological in the remarkable story "Maximum Exposure," which chronicles a California photographer identified only as Annie who returns to Mexico to document the same subjects for 25 years.

Jamison senses a kinship with the photographer: "Annie's impulse to keep expanding her project plays out a certain fantasy I've felt in my ain work: to put no boundaries effectually my evocation of my subjects, to make them infinite, to let them keep going on forever. Representing people ever involves reducing them, and calling a project 'done' involves making an uneasy truce with that reduction. But some part of me rail against that compression. Some role of me wants to keep saying: in that location'southward more, there's more, at that place's more. It's why I oft write ten thousand more words than I was assigned."

Her last section, the Dwelling, chimes best. Here the topics come from her ain life; weddings ("Rehearsals"), eloping to Las Vegas ("The Existent Smoke") and stepmotherhood ("Daughter of a Ghost"). Finally, the stunning "The Quickening" juxtaposes the nascence of her daughter with her former anorectic years. And it's hither where this intelligent and vibrant collection comes full circle.

"For me, the notion of making life scream is less about pain and more nigh urgency," Jamison writes in Entertainment Weekly, explaining how this collection came well-nigh. "It'south virtually finding a kind of primal weep inside the ordinary house, the ordinary marriage, the ordinary morning. It'south about looking at something so closely that you experience it starting to smolder nether your gaze.

"It was what I wanted to practice in this book: Brand life scream. Make it burn down. Brand it funny. Make information technology foreign. Brand information technology sing."

Make It Scream, Make Information technology Burn

Leslie Jamison

Trivial Brown: 272 pages; $28

Kinosian is a Southern California journalist and author and longtime Times contributor.

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