In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
From Jami Attenberg
I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.
I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.
I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
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.
I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.
It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.
With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
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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