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Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Taffy Brodesser-Akner Biography

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has also written for GQ, ESPN the Magazine, and many other publications. Fleishman Is in Trouble is her first novel.

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