jami attenberg
writing portfolio
last updated: 11/02/07

print: magazines + newspapers

New York
Best Edited Antiques March 2008
Best Cheap Movers March 2008
Best Used Refrigerator March 2008

Jane
"Jonny's Facial Hair is Killing Me" May 2007

Print
Ian Allen profile March/April 2008
Jeffrey Docherty profileMarch/April 2008
Joe Sacco Interview, January 2008
Absolutely Fabulous (Ellen Forney interview) September 2007
R. Kikuo Johnson profile March/April 2007
Kevin Smith profile March/April 2007
"The Girls’ Guide to Writing and Publishing" July/August 2006
"Radical Traditionalists" July/August 2006
"Gothic Graffitti" (Florencio Zavala profile) March/April 2006
"Real Simple" (Verena Petrasch profile) March/April 2006
"Needle Points" (Marjane Satrapi profile) May/June 2005

San Francisco Chronicle - Books
"Birds in Fall" (review) May 14, 2006
"The Tattoo Artist" (review) August 21, 2005
"I'm Not the New Me" (review) May 1, 2005
"Ambivalence, A Love Story" (review) February 6, 2005
"Give Me" (review) February 20, 2005

Plenty
"What Organic Food Brings to the Table" April 2006
"A pod for your iPod" August 2005

Queens Chronicle
"Separation Sunday" (review) April 21, 2005
"Be Cool" (review) March 3, 2005
"The Wedding Date" (review) February 3, 2005

Time Out NY - TV
"Comic Relief" (Situation: Comedy review) July 20, 2005
"Alternate reality" (Joe Schmo 2 review) July 1, 2004
"Sister pact" (Three Sisters review) May 20,2004
"Tourist Trap" (Diary of a Political Tourist review) October 14, 2004
"A Season in hell" (Pilot Season review) September 9, 2004

Nylon
"Third Places: A Bagel with Lox and a Side of Humanity" (essay), May 2003
Almost Killed Me, The Hold Steady (review) April 2004

Self
"A feel-good lift for less" September, 2004

print: books

The Kept Man(Riverhead Books, 2008)

Instant Love (Crown/Shaye Areheart Books, 2006)

Deli Life (So New Media, 2003)

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
"Protective Measures"

2033: The Future of Misbehavior
"In The Bushes"

Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica
"Victory Gardens"

Smut:Volume 1
"Instant Love"

Bad Sex: We Did It, so You Won't Have To
"Down with OCD"

print: zines + journals

Post Road (No.15)
"Feast of Snakes Recommendation"

Bullfight Review
"Instant Love"

Spork Magazine
"The Donut Girls"

The Other Page
"Hamburg to Stockholm"

Pindeldyboz 5
"The Perfect Triangle" (fiction), Spring 2005

Pearl Necklace #2: Treasure Trail
"The Pink Nail" (essay + photos), Spring 2005

Words!Words!Words!: Issues 2 + 3
Contributor

web

Five Chapters
The Last Movie

Smokelong Quarterly
The Off-Season

Modern Tonic
The Wild, Wild West: No Country for Old Men
A Boy Meets Sex Doll Story: Lars and the Real Girl Review
The American Family, Redefined: Brothers & Sisters Season 1 DVD Review
The Coffee Table Book for Your Inner Club Kid: Misshapes Book Review
A Serial Killer a Cut Above The Rest: Season 1 DVD

The Huffington Post
An Author Signature
Dublin: Not the Life for Me

Nerve
Essay: "The Homeless Guy"
Fiction: "One Plus One Plus One"
Fiction: "Catch and Release"
Essay: "Getting Down with OCD"
Interview: "Where the Heart is"
Fiction: "Instant Love"

Radar
Wha’ Happened?: Fred Willard Interview

Nextbook
"Brooklyn Follies"
"What Lies Beneath"
"The Quitter" (review)

Largehearted Boy
Ryan Walsh from Hallelujah the Hills Interview
Book Notes

3 AM Magazine
An Excerpt from The Prick
We Can Still Have A Good Day, Can't We?

Salon
"Venus Envy"
"Keep a Web journal, get fired...or worse"
"Boy Behavior"

Sirens Magazine
"The Grand Gesture"

92Y Blog
100 Words on Dirty Old Men

eWeek/Publish/PDF Zone
"Guardians of the Electronic Frontier"
"Playboy Seeks Digital Exposure"
Blogs, Webzines and the Money Question
"Panelists Field Barrage of Questions on PDF/A"
"IRS Uses 2-D Bar Codes to Reduce Data Entry"
"Appligent Plug-In Helps Organize Document Collections"
"Adobe Touts Multipublishing at CS2 Launch"
"Old Computers Find New Homes as Vintage Artifacts"
"Top Five Vintage Computers Turn Dust into Dollars"

Yankee Pot Roast
"I Love You, 'I Love the 90s,' but I'm Not in Love with You"
"Things My Nana Levenstein Taught Me About Love"

Black Table
One Night Standing Room Only.
I Dig Dudes Wearing Aprons
Rooting for the Underdog
My New Year's Resolution for 2005

Working for the Man
A Virus on the Loose in the Internet Sweatshop

The Next Big Thing
Featured photos - "Movements Great and Small"

Flavorpill
Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel: The Quitter
Megan Kelso and Ariel Bordeaux at Cupcake
How to Kick People's "Funny Pages"
Radio 4
In a Blue State: Rants, Reflections, and Elegies about 11/2
WYSIWYG: Happy Goddamn Holidays
Nick Hornby and Sarah Vowell at Housing Works
Matthew Sharpe and Wayne Koestenbaum at Happy Ending
Nick Flynn at New School
Art, Activism, and Wireless Technology During the RNC
Joyce Carol Oates at New School
Radio 4 w/ the Flesh and Oxford Collapse preview
Ephemera vs. the Apocalypse w/ Art Spiegelman preview
Heeb Storytelling preview
Comets on Fire w/ Sunburned Hand of the Man and Oakley Hall preview
Mighty Robot Rock Festival preview
Interdependent Film Series preview
Vic Thrill preview
Chicks on Speed preview
The Trouble With Sweeney preview Ink Studs preview
L.I.E review
Ghost World review

Online Journalism Review
Harry Shearer Interview
Exiled In Germany
Stubborn Singles

Girlcomic.net
No Competition

Lasagna Farm
Review of Last Week's Guided By Voices Show at Warsaw over IM

Meomore
Frontseat

HBO
Six Feet Under Postmortem Interviews
Alan Ball (Season Finale)
Craig Wright
Rick Cleveland
Bruce Williams and Howard Baker
Rusty Lipscomb
Dan Attias
Jill Ohanneson
MASTERSFX and Larry Teeters
Bruce Eric Kaplan and Bob Del Valle
Alan Poul and Suzuki Ingerslev
Kate Robin
Michael Cuesta
Alan Ball (Season Premiere)

Passion Village
Have Love, Will Travel
Five Things That Turn Women On
Calling it Quits
The Director and The Fluffer

Rocker Zine
Cat Calling Take 1
Tight Enough for Rock N' Roll

crush.nu
Dave and the Bar

Brevity
Head-turner

Soundbitten
"Queer Duck" review

Katbot
Mission Report #01 (with Angela Martini)
Lyrics to "Sunlight!" and "Shiny Object"

Breakup Girl
Free Love: Dating on the Cheap

Ironminds
Sleater-Kinney:A Fan's Perspective
What is the Dogstar?
No Sex, Plenty of City
Good Help is Hard to Find

Dispatch From The East Village
Getting Carded
Party.com
Relaxation Therapy
Dinner, Drinks, and a Flashback
Brush With So-Called Greatness
No Walk in the Park
The Great Elephant Irony Caper
City Feedback
Take This Job And...
One Long Party
Table For One, Please. Please?
A Bedtime Story
Better Laid Than Never
Holy Cow!
Lost and Found
Material Girl