Jami Attenberg
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Notable NYC: 4/5–4/11
Saturday 4/5: T. Zachary Cotler reads from his novel Ghost at the Loom (2013), the story of a poet remembering his sister as he treks across Europe. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 4/6: Paige Taggart celebrates the release of Want…
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Tournament of Books X Begins!
Get ready for the Morning News’s tenth annual Tournament of Books, a “March Madness–style battle royale” to determine which work of fiction will reign supreme (though the site is careful to note that the competition “is not an attempt to…
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Notable NYC: 12/14–12/20
Saturday 12/14: Mike Albo, Jami Attenberg, Sandra Bauleo, Alexander Chee, Adam Gopnik, Lev Grossman, Jill Hennessey, Dave Hill, Saeed Jones, Michael Kostroff, Fiona Maazel, Ayana Mathis, Téa Obreht, Gabriel Roth, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Rosie Schaap, Elissa Schappell, Parul Sehgal, Jim Shepard,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rosie Schaap
Rosie Schaap discusses Drinking with Men, her love of poetry, her intriguing family members, and what she would do with her life if she weren’t a writer.
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The Rumpus Interview with Molly Ringwald
Molly Ringwald, once a Brat Pack member and now a novelist, chats about the writing life, avoiding clichéd similes, and the influence of Raymond Carver on her process.
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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.
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Jami Attenberg Roundup
This 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…
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“What’s Eating Jami Attenberg?”
This 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:…
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Praise for The Middlesteins
Our 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…
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The Daily Beast Loves The Rumpus Book Club
And we love you back. While I’m at it, a little update news. Our current book is Kathleen Alcott’s The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets—Bookslut covered it here and said “It’s never simple, but if complicated is what produces a novel…
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Where I’ve Laid My Head
I have slept in 26 locations in the last seven months. This was never my intention, this peripatetic life, but looking back now at the age of 40, I can finally see I have been doing it for decades.
