What's the story with Toby Fleishman and his crumbling marriage?

Taffy Brodyser-Akner will join us to talk about her debut and best-selling novel, Fleishman

is in trouble.

Is there something we should all know about the cheap generic drugs our doctors are prescribing?

Katherine Eben will be here to talk about her new book, Bottle of Lies.

Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Taffy Brodyser-Akner joins us now.

She is a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, writes for culture, writes everywhere

around the times, and has also written her first novel, Fleishman is in trouble.

Hey Taffy, thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me, Pamela.

Did you always want to write a novel?

Is this secretly your ambition and your just like journalism is your day job?

It was not secretly my ambition.

It was boldly my ambition, and I was not good at it, and I was not good at screenwriting.

And then I fell into journalism in a weird way.

I worked at a soap opera magazine.

And was it soap opera digest?

No.

It was like not even soap opera digest.

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