What It Means to Be All Grown Up: An Interview with Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg and I were supposed to go to a protest in front of the White House. It would really have been the perfect setting for this interview—it would have made for a killer lede—and fresh off the Women’s March we were both genuinely jazzed to wave more signs in the cold. But, come the appointed hour, Attenberg wasn’t feeling too hot and I myself was starving. That’s how we ended up sitting at a hotel bar drinking water and eating French fries. But there&rsquo