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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Writing this sentence was hard. There were so many other things I could have gone with. That set of words seemed right ...

Jami Attenberg is having a moment. She’s been on a monster book tour across the country for her new novel, “All Grown Up,” and she’s kept writing like a fiend all along. Look for her in O Magazine, ...

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, ...

Neighbor, sister, lover—these are the people Jami Attenberg dreamed of chatting with while writing her new novel, Saint Mazie (Grand Central, 2015). The friends and family of Mazie Phillips Gordon, ...

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 at home in Williamsburg. (Photo credit: Emily Assiran/New York Observer) Ms. Attenberg first heard about Mazie when her friend, the Brooklyn bar designer Johnny McCormick, opened a ...

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., ...

In this more enlightened age in which we live, one resists the temptation to say all Greeks are alike, but damn if “Attenberg” doesn’t bring to mind “Dogtooth,” one of the best films of 2010.