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Hospitality Training and Taking Care of the Reader: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hamilton - The Rumpus

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“ I don’t like reading books where you can feel the writer fiddling with you and admiring themselves as they manipulate the words on the page. I don’t love a self-congratulatory writer—you can sniff it on the page immediately—more than I like to sit down in a restaurant and be interrupted by the waiter, the chef, repeatedly, where you can’t ever eat your meal without their full instruction and interference. I really adhere to the school of, “You want to see the art, not the artist.” I should be receding and leaving you with a very, very delicious meal on the plate for you to enjoy.”

Hospitality Training and Taking Care of the Reader: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hamilton - The Rumpus Skip to content Interviews Hospitality Training and Taking Care of the Reader: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hamilton By Phyllis Grant • December 16, 2025 Gabrielle Hamilton always wanted to be a writer. She moved to New York City, supported herself in the catering world, and got an MFA in writing from University of Michigan, but in her twenties she never did manage to write a book. She took a hard left and went full-bore into the restaurant world, left her writing dreams behind, and opened

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