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Hi, I'm Jami Attenberg. I write books, and much, much more. My fourth book, The Middlesteins, came out in October. You can order it here or here.

Also I like dogs and fighting crime.

This is the fifth place to find me on the internet. Please don't tell me I need a sixth.

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A discussion we were having:Just because a book doesn’t read like the author cut a vein and bled all over the page doesn’t mean it’s a bad book, although it’s probably not the kind of book I like to read necessarily. I like to feel like the author was there, and they were having deep feelings while they were writing the book. I don’t want to feel their hand in it, I don’t want to feel their authorness (whatever that is) (but you know what I mean), but I do want a sense of what went into it. I want to finish a book and know the author died on the page and then was reborn again. Read more.

A discussion we were having:

Just because a book doesn’t read like the author cut a vein and bled all over the page doesn’t mean it’s a bad book, although it’s probably not the kind of book I like to read necessarily.

I like to feel like the author was there, and they were having deep feelings while they were writing the book. I don’t want to feel their hand in it, I don’t want to feel their authorness (whatever that is) (but you know what I mean), but I do want a sense of what went into it. I want to finish a book and know the author died on the page and then was reborn again.

Read more.

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