“Long Island Compromise” is out on July 9 from Random House.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner sits at a cloth-draped table in early June at the Upper West Side’s Cafe Luxembourg. She orders coffee, and then more coffee; the evening prior, she’d lost 1,000 words of a draft for The New York Times and stayed up until 4:30 a.m. rewriting it because her editor needed “proof of life.
What if I had thought that in my birthing room, for example? I wonder if that could have changed anything for me, I wonder if I would’ve believed it, I wonder if it’s possibly true. But the thing I land on is, what’s the difference? Where do you stop? And, if you’re not your body, what are you—your soul? I don’t know. I don’t know about the soul. I don’t have any sort of tangibles about the soul. It seems very hard to parse. Yeah.
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