What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

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• Jami Attenberg:

  In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cu

• Jami Attenberg:

  I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

• Jami Attenberg:

  I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

• Jami Attenberg:

  I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

• Jami Attenberg:

  I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant

• Jami Attenberg:

  I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, an

• Jami Attenberg:

  I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

• Jami Attenberg:

  It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each oth

• Jami Attenberg:

  With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

• Jami Attenberg:

  No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts