Taffy Brodesser-Akner

1 month ago | waterstones.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Anna Orhanen

This is a story I tell often. Like all repeated stories, I have to imagine that it’s grown some augmentations and added some eyelashes, but I stand by it, and if there are any exaggerations, they’re not material to the point. In 2014, I was a freelance magazine writer, and a successful one. But like all 21st century writers of my generation, having witnessed the trajectories of her elders, I was convinced that success would lead to wealth, and I was broke.

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Taffy Brodesser-Akner grew up in 1970s Brooklyn in an Orthodox Jewish household. She went on to become an award-winning celebrity profiler at GQ and The New York Times. Her journalism mixes empathy with clear-eyed judgment - perhaps that's what makes her such a great novelist too. In 2019 her darkly funny debut about a bitter divorce, Fleishman Is in Trouble, was on everyone's lips. It's since been made into a mini-series starring Jesse Eisenberg. Her latest book is Long Island Compromise.

2 months ago | memoirland.substack.com | Maggie Andersen |Sarah Mullens |Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Ryan Berg

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. ⬇️First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. The Lit Lab, featuring interviews—The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire—and essays on craft and publishing.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.