754. Jami Attenberg

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Jami Attenberg is the author of the memoir I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, available from Ecco. Attenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All This Could Be Yours. She has contributed essays to the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times, and the Guardian, among other publications. She lives in New Orleans. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	Hello, how are you? What's going on? Welcome to the Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. Thank you for tuning in. I hope you're okay. I have Jamie Attenberg on the program today. She has a new memoir out on Echo. It is called I came all this way to meet you, writing myself home.
1:30.7	And it is always fun talking with Jamie Adenberg.
1:39.5	With this new book of hers, she is breaking some new ground, having written her first memoir.
1:43.1	I came all this way to meet you is about home. It's about finding one's artistic home, one's physical home.
1:49.8	It's about feeling good inside one's own skin.
1:53.0	It's about what it takes to be an artist in our world today.
1:57.7	It's about the choices that we make and it's about the consequences of those choices.
2:02.5	It's about being a woman in this world and trying to make a life in the arts on one's own terms.
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