Think about Sex and the City. I’m talking about the original, not the And Just Like That reboot. If HBO’s mega-hit is to be believed, the life of a writer is seldom anything but charmed. Sure, there ...

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Attenberg's first novel focuses on the precise moments at which a handful of women fall in love, out of love and back in again: spontaneous Holly; her grounded big ...

On Oct. 23, Harvard Book Store hosted Jami Attenberg in conversation with Harvard fiction lecturer Laura van den Berg for the launch of “All This Could Be Yours.” Attenberg’s new book, a ...

It might seem unfair to compare Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s innovative sophomore feature “Attenberg” to Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants.” The latter is a polished Hollywood excursion ...

Jami Attenberg and Bernardine Evaristo have had somewhat disparate careers; Attenberg has become known for her particular brand of family novel, and Evaristo shot to immense stardom last year when her ...

Jami Attenberg’s family tragedy arrives bearing the imprimatur of Jonathan Franzen, who has praised the author’s “sympathy” and “artistry.” Franzen’s endorsement makes a fair amount of sense. True, ...

Several years ago, I found myself in a reading slump. Half-heartedly read novels piled up in a stack by my bedside. It wasn’t clear if I wanted a book that would help me escape a challenging season or ...

When Jami Attenberg was little, her mom would hand her a pen and paper, encouraging Attenberg “to play” — “‘You were always off in your own little world. You were always thinking,’” her mom tells her ...

Jami Attenberg writes smart, brassy novels about dysfunctional families, and she has a lot to say about her work in her memoir, “I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home” (Ecco, 272 pp., ...