When Taffy Brodesser-Akner, 48, was writing Long Island Compromise, the follow-up to her smash 2019 debut novel Fleishman Is in Trouble, which she adapted into a television series, she was haunted by what would happen if it bombed. “I’m fairly obsessed with money,” she says. “My career success is tied up with it. It was in my head all the time, this [book] will fail and it will lead to financial ruin for me.”
When she began receiving positive reactions to early preview copies she was so overcome with relief, “I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks I was in such a state of shock.”
