Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg
full statement totally
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
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When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.
When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.
act morning wake
I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.
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My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.
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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.
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My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.
I'm a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.
people variation
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.
died
My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.
food hit maybe
Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.