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In this Today Show video, Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (Bloomsbury, 2022), recommends books to read for the coming year, including Erasure by Percival Everett, Anna O by Matthew Blake, and 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg.
“For a long time, I worked day jobs that were different from the one I have now.” In this Books Are Magic recorded event, Jami Attenberg reads from her memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home (Ecco, 2022), and speaks about her writing process with author Kristen Arnett. For more Attenberg, read “1000 Words of Summer: How an Accountability Project Opened Up My Writing Life” in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Jami Attenberg, a recent contributor to the magazine and the author of the new novel The Middlesteins, and Jeffrey Yoskowitz, cofounder of Gefliteria, a boutique purveyor of Old World Jewish foods in Brooklyn, New York, recently got together and made some pickles.
