Author Taffy Brodesser-Akner says the start of middle age 'hit her like a truck.' As her friends got divorced and began dating again, she was inspired to write a novel — which she's now adapted for the screen.
"All these people that we knew so well as very, very young people — it hits home for me so much. ... This is a force you cannot fight," she says."We're all going to get old."I've always been into wondering what adulthood would be like. I did not realize that by the time you finally realize you're an adult, there's no"prime" of that.
I was having this crisis in the journalism I was writing. I write a lot of profiles, and it got to the point where I would spend enough time with my subjects who told me very personal things about their lives, and about their pasts, and about their marriages that ended, and about their children, and about their struggles in the world, and their gripes with the world, and sort of how it's been for them since they took off.
In fiction, you've made it up, so everything is you. Everything, every person on the page is some aspect of you. But Libby, especially as rendered in the show by Lizzy Caplan, is cooler than I am. ... But the things about her, she worked at a men's magazine. She has a very devoted husband and two children, and she's just feeling lost in the world.
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