Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Single Degree of Magazine-Article Separation

It happened in Park Slope.

Imagine this. You’re going about your day when suddenly, right there next to you, there is an individual reading something that you wrote. Do you… Keep quiet? Suppress a chortle? Make a formal introduction?

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and GQ, faced this situation for the first time over the weekend. She tells us it happened at Pain Quotidien in Park Slope. “I was interviewing someone else, and I saw someone with her New York Times and I saw her open up to the story I wrote about the circus in the magazine,” Akner says.

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