Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg
terrible please relatable
Please make me either relatable or terrible.
nearly
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
wrote
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
age branded early either people shake sort
People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
either incredibly journal writers
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.
time weigh
My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
anywhere near
I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.
ate fat parents point themselves
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
full statement totally
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
coming eternal food great layers society struggle
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.
detail eats eye favorite food
What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
We've all got flesh. I've just got a little more.