So Much For My Fucking Optimism reads the banner mounted behind the steel table where Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins, writes. The flag is on permanent loan from novelist Kate Christensen, who sublet Jami’s Williamsburg loft following her divorce, and for whom the pleasures of cooking helped allay the difficulty of those transitional months. Kate describes her relationship with Jami’s apartment, as well as the dishes she concocted and savored there, in her new memoir Blue Plate Special. HENRY was thrilled when the two friends agreed to sit for a video reading on-site, especially when Jami offered to leading the Q&A. Our optimism was not disappointed.
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