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Taffy Brodesser-Akner (born Stephanie Akner) is an American journalist and author. She has worked freelance and as a contributor for GQ and The New York Times, where she is now a staff writer. Her profiles of celebrities have won her the New York Press Club Award and Mirror Award.
Jul 7, 2024 · LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. What does it mean to come by one’s life honestly? This is the question at the heart of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s generation-spanning sophomore...
“Brodesser-Akner is a steady, imaginative, insightful writer, and there are riotous passages, haunting dybbuks, and unseen twists that make it thoroughly discussable. Readers will get lost and found in its universe of wealth, family, faith, and other fallible securities.” — Booklist (starred review)
Jul 8, 2024 · TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. "Long Island Compromise" is a new novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and it opens with a kidnapping. The year is 1980, and Carl...
Jul 7, 2024 · Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for the magazine. The kidnapping that begins her new novel, “Long Island Compromise,” was inspired by the Jack Teich kidnapping in 1974. Published...
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a features writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in New York.
Jul 8, 2024 · Taffy Brodesser-Akner Writes Real People — Not Likable Ones. Brodesser-Akner's new novel, Long Island Compromise, centers on the kidnapping of a rich businessman, and the impact, decades...
Jul 3, 2024 · Brodesser-Akner’s 464-page, multi-perspective second novel, Long Island Compromise, was clearly written by a masterful juggler. The book features the Fletchers, a Jewish-American family...
Jul 1, 2024 · Not so with the Fletchers, the “extraordinarily, absurdly, kidnappably rich” family at the heart of “Long Island Compromise” (Random House), by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.
Nov 30, 2022 · Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is also the creator and executive producer of its Emmy-nominated limited series adaptation for FX. Long Island Compromise is her second novel.
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