Jami Attenberg (born 1971) is an American fiction writer and essayist. She is the author of a short story collection, six novels, including the best-seller The Middlesteins (2012), and a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You (2022). (wikipedia)
I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.
I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.
The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.
I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.
I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.
Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.
My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.