Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Family Dramas October 31, 2024
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new novel, Long Island Compromise, begins with a kidnapping. The year is 1980; Carl Fletcher, a wealthy Jewish factory owner living in the fictional Long Island town of Middle Rock, is getting into his car one morning when he ...
The Styrofoam Titans July 12, 2024
Behind every great fortune lies a crime, according to Balzac—who knew how to write a gloriously immersive novel about sex, status, and society. In Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s second novel, Long Island Compromise, the crimes are ongoing and generally disp...
The Particular Ways That Being Rich Screws You Up July 10, 2024
When a certain type of person reaches middle age without having achieved the level of professional recognition or personal happiness they feel they deserve, they’re apt to take a page from sociologists who study poverty and start searching for root c...
