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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.
3 days ago · This is the question at the heart of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s generation-spanning sophomore novel, “Long Island Compromise,” which tells the story of a wealthy, dysfunctional suburban Jewish ...
“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)
Taylor Swift’s greatest gift is for telling her own story — better than any journalist could. But Taffy Brodesser-Akner gives it a shot anyway.
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...
2 days ago · Taffy Brodesser-Akner Writes Real People — Not Likable Ones : Fresh Air Brodesser-Akner's novel centers on the kidnapping of a rich businessman, and the impact, decades later, on his grown children.
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.
5 days ago · Book Review. Long Island Compromise. By Taffy Brodesser-Akner Random House: 464 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees ...
1 day ago · 6 min. Let’s get this out of the way up front, so to speak: The title of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new novel, “Long Island Compromise,” is a reference to anal sex. That says something about ...
Taffy Brodesser-Akner reveals the twisted hearts of her characters—and the twisted soul of contemporary America—with an eye that is at once pitiless and full of compassion for our human foibles. This is a remarkable debut novel from one of the most distinctive writers around."
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