‘I guess your art is where your traumas go’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner talks about her novel on men and modern divorce

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‘I guess your art is where your traumas go’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner talks about her novel on men and modern divorce GlobeArts

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is an award-winning long-form journalist who joined The New York Times and its magazine in 2017.Taffy Brodesser-Akner, an award-winning long-form journalist who joined The New York Times and its magazine in 2017, has brought tsunamis of traffic to the newspaper’s website with her empathetic and unusually in-depth celebrity profiles of the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Bradley Cooper and Jonathan Franzen.

All of my friends were getting divorced – and I wanted to try to write about modern divorce and what it’s like for my generation to be dating again. I would have done this in a magazine story if anyone had let me. Nobody wanted that story; you know, if there was a celebrity in it, maybe. So, I wrote it as a novel.

Why, when you were choosing to tackle the subject of divorce, did you choose to write mainly about a man? Fleishman works in a hospital and we encounter some doctors behaving less compassionately toward patients, including a male doctor who breaks a pregnant woman’s water without her consent. That really happened to you and you have written about it before in non-fiction. What made you want to put it into the novel?

 

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