The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Jami Attenberg
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jami Attenberg about The Middlesteins, the fair portrayal of an overweight protagonist, and food addiction in the face of an unforgiving culture.
...moreThe Rumpus Book Club chats with Jami Attenberg about The Middlesteins, the fair portrayal of an overweight protagonist, and food addiction in the face of an unforgiving culture.
...moreRumpus Book Club member Mandy Boles, a.k.a. The Well-Read Wife, shares her review of October book club selection The Middlesteins.
(She even calls our Book Club awesome. What a charmer.)
...moreThis month’s Rumpus Book Club selection, The Middlesteins, hit bookstores yesterday, and there is so much love for Jami Attenberg—who is also a Rumpus contributor—it is nothing short of awesome.
Here are some links to psych you up for this good read:
The Rumpus’s own Saturday Editor Michelle Dean sits down with Attenberg for her “Quit Your Job!
...moreThis month’s Rumpus Book Club author and contributor Jami Attenberg got some love over at Interview Magazine today.
In “What’s Eating Jami Attenberg?”, the writer talks shop about her latest novel, The Middlesteins, and also puts in a good word for chivalry in art:
“…that’s totally tied into who I am as a writer.
...moreOur October Rumpus Book Club selection, Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins, has been receiving lots of accolades from the likes of O Magazine, The Buffalo News, and Grantland.
“…It’s clear-eyed funny and truthful and deeply moving, especially in the killer-punch of its ending.”
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