Hello! Welcome to Money Talks, a bit of slate money where we find the most fabulous,

interesting and brilliant people in the world,

and we drag them on to this podcast to talk about

incredibly fascinating things. I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I am joined

by Emily Peck of Axios because we need two of us for this one.

Hello hello?

Because Emily who do we have on this week?

We have the most wonderful most brilliant writer in the world, Taffy Brodiser Akner, has joined us today.

Hello?

Hello.

Excited to be here.

For those eight people who might not know exactly who you are, can you introduce yourself and of course plug your book?

Sure, I'm Taffy Brodasser Ackner. I'm a staff writer at the New York Times magazine and the author of most recently and most urgently

Long Island Compromise.

Available now from Random House books.

And just in case anyone wants to know what we're talking about,

there are these three children of wealth

that came from a post-war styrofoam factory. They live on Long Island. Their father was kidnapped in 1980 and we meet

them after we hear about the kidnapping, most of the book takes place at this moment after their grandmother who controlled the fortune dies and they make a terrible decision with the

output the excess financial output of the factory and end up paying the price

for it and they are no longer getting quarterly drops of vast sums and they suddenly realize, you know, we might have to work for this.

And we are going to delve into what happens in this novel.

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