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    Staff Picks: Whales, Waitresses, and Winogrand

    by The Paris Review Jul 12, 2019 4 minutes

    Leslie Jamison. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan.

    Earlier this week I had the rare and enviable—if slightly inconvenient—experience of missing a subway stop because I was so engrossed in what I was reading. The culprit: the first essay in Leslie Jamison’s collection , forthcoming from Little, Brown in September. In the offending essay, “52 Blue,” Jamison explores the science and mythology surrounding a whale whose uncommon song, inaudible to other members of the species, earned him the title “The Loneliest Whale in The World.” Part reportage, part philosophical musing, Jamison’s meandering prose seeks to understand what the whale represents—morally, symbolically, ecologically—to the community of scientists, artists, and

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