Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Julia Whelan |Jack D’Isidoro |Kelly Prime |Frannie Carr Toth |John Woo | +1 more
"The force of his will is the thing I remember about him," says Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who wrote a profile of Val Kilmer for The New York Times Magazine in May 2020. "He was sure he was going to come back to his exact former self. "The two met for an interview just as a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic seemed all but certain to happen. Mr. Kilmer, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and had undergone a tracheotomy, was still performing.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner
I learned that Mr. Lindenblatt was dying when I was in London this past November on business. I had awoken from a dream that his daughter Ilana, who is one of my oldest friends, was engaged. I called her up and asked if there was something I didn't know, because I inherited a witchy quality from my mother: I occasionally have dreams about people and it turns out that they're predictive or at least thematically correct.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner
1 hour agoUS: Thousands rally in Washington to demand end to Gaza genocide, crackdown on pro-Palestine students (2)SHOTLIST: WASHINGTON DC, US (APRIL 5, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CARRYING FLAGS,BANNERS, CHANTING SLOGANS, MARCHING, BANGING DRUMS 2. WOMAN SPEAKING TO REPORTER (English) 3.
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2 months ago |
interviewmagazine.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Jake Nevins
In the words of its author, Adam Ross, Playworld is a novel that perhaps shouldn’t work right now. It’s not entirely clear how the 500-page semi-autobiographical tour-de-force, revolving around an affair between its 14-year-old protagonist and a 36-year-old married woman, became one of this year’s must-reads.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
christiancentury.org | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Mac Loftin |Brandon Ambrosino |Richard Lischer
Why read the book of the summer when the season is long over? Well, one reason might be that the book in question has an eschatological hole in the middle of it, big enough to drive a truck through, that other reviewers seem to have ignored—despite all the attention the book has received. Last July, there was a stretch when you couldn’t dip into an online lit mag or open a lifestyle section without seeing the praise (and the hype) for Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s second novel, Long Island Compromise.
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and worth at least half that! (please buy my book for practically free thank you)
Exciting news! Long Island Compromise by @taffyakner, bestselling author of Fleishman is in Trouble is 99p today only! https://t.co/QvG9fnHQdX https://t.co/ABXyA6OZCQ
RT @headlinepg: Exciting news! Long Island Compromise by @taffyakner, bestselling author of Fleishman is in Trouble is 99p today only! h…
Be there for when the wicked witch of the east finally buys it and Adam and I are restored to full technicolor!
Exactly ONE WEEK out from the launch of my new book, 99% PERSPIRATION! New Yorkers, come out to see me and @taffyakner talk about work and the American Dream at @Rizzoli_Bkstore next Tuesday. RSVP: https://t.co/2i2ZR6kFNp https://t.co/OfPrOn4Ons
