Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg
smoking challenges quitting
You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.
easily love peter
My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.
agents beauty believe curious estate growing industrial neighbors offense street
No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is.
fights kids picked threw
I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.
extremely
In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
mostly occupy watched
I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.
time weigh
My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
addition apartments extremely home public shabby south
In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.
journals online
Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.
wrote
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
respects
There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.
countless graduate literary pitch published pursue seemed send writers
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.
either incredibly journal writers
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.
agent ambivalent art believes business entitled looking love people work
I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?