584 - Adapting Your Own Novel

<p>Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins us to discuss her journey adapting her bestselling novel “Fleishman Is in Trouble” into an acclaimed limited series. We chat about drawing inspiration from the familiar, learning how manage others, and presenting multiple sides to a story.</p> <p>We also answer listener questions about naming characters, decorative dialogue, and the renaissance of the television half-hour.</p> <p>In our bonus segment for premium members, we dig into the art and structure of the celebrity profile, a genre in which Taffy is herself an expert.</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/fleishman-is-in-trouble">Fleishman Is in Trouble</a> on Hulu, and the <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Fleishman-Trouble-Novel-Taffy-Brodesser-Akner/dp/0525510877">book</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.gq.com/contributor/taffy-brodesser-akner">Taffy’s GQ Celebrity Profiles</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/13/opinion/jodorowsky-dune-ai-tron.html"> This Film Does Not Exist</a> By Frank Pavich for NYT, Tron reimagined by AI in the style of <a href= "https://www.jodorowskysdune.com/">Jodorowsky’s Dune</a>, images by Midjourney</li> <li><a href= "https://blog.elevenlabs.io/enter-the-new-year-with-a-bang/">This Voice Doesn’t Exist – Generative Voice AI</a></li> <li><a href="https://valle-demo.github.io/">VALL-E Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/dan-kois-202210285022860"> Vintage Contemporaries</a> by Dan Kois</li> <li><a href= "https://cottonbureau.com/people/scriptnotes-podcast">Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!</a></li> <li><a href="https://inneresting.substack.com/">Check out the Inneresting Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="https://scriptnotes.supportingcast.fm/gifts">Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription</a> or <a href= "https://scriptnotes.supportingcast.fm/">treat yourself to a premium subscription!</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/taffyakner">Taffy Brodesser-A