How Jami Attenberg helped form a supportive online literary community with #1000WordsofSummer.
Jami Attenberg
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Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsofSummer Turned a Corner of the Internet into a Supportive Literary Community
An essay on #1000WordsofSummer, the two-week-long public writing-accountability project novelist Jami Attenberg offered to writers for free, via Twitter, Instagram and TinyLetter, from June 15th through June 29th of 2018.
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In Guatemala, a Solo Traveler Learns It’s Sometimes Best to Leap Before You Look
A travel essay in which, during a last-minute solo excursion to Lake Atitlan, Jami Attenberg considers the advantages to taking more risks and opening up to the unfamiliar, and the differences between healthy solitude and isolation.
Posted inBlog Post, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
An Unapologetic Plea for Your Help Funding More Personal Essays
Longreads’ Essays Editor on the importance of budgeting for personal narratives.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Curing My Flight Anxiety, One Book Tour at a Time
Novelist Jami Attenberg discovered a surprise antidote to the anxiety that plagued her each time she had to get on a plane to promote a book.
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The First Five Chapters of ‘Saint Mazie’ by Jami Attenberg
UK website The Pool has an excerpt of Saint Mazie, the much-lauded new novel by Jami Attenberg, author of the New York Times Bestselling The Middlesteins. They’ve got not just one chapter, but the first five from this book of historical fiction about legendary “Queen of the Bowery” Mazie Phillips—an irreverent but kind figure known for handing […]