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 onto this podcast to talk about incredibly fascinating things.

I'm Felix Salmon 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 Brodus or Ackner, has joined us today. Hello.

Hello. I'm 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 Brodusser-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.

And we are going to talk a lot about the intersection of class and money. It is a fantastic,

really rich conversation in all senses of the word. So I can't wait. It's all coming up on

Money Talks.

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