Lisa Taddeo Doesn’t Dream of Hollywood

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: German Larkin Author Lisa Taddeo has a bittersweet relationship with Hollywood. Last year, amid a rebrand and an executive shakeup, Showtime decided to drop the adaptation of her best-selling nonfiction book, Three Women , after the series was filmed. It was devastating news to tell her sources, who had shared their complicated experiences of female desire with Taddeo over the course of eight years. “I was told these are the breaks in Hollywood,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “Three Women’s stories are another man’s tax deductions.” But Starz went on to pick up the series, and Three Women finally premiered on September 13. The 44-year-old has spent the past few months on red carpets and doing press, but what she really wants is fewer meetings and more time to write. Since Three Women came out in 2019, Taddeo got an MFA in fiction and published a novel ( Animal ) and a short-story collection ( Ghost Lovers ), both of which deal with female trauma and sexuality. Now, Taddeo is working on a second nonfiction book about grief and adapting more of her work for TV and film. She lives in rural Connecticut with her husband and 9-year-old daughter. Here’s how she gets it done. On her morning routine: My anxiety wakes me up at 4 a.m. That’s my alarm clock. I am not doing morning yoga; I’m responding to emails. Around 6:30 a.m., my daughter wakes up. I get her ready for the day and drop her off at school. I’m not typically hungry in the morning. I’ll make an English muffin just to have something in my stomach. When I come back home I usually have press for the show and a couple of meetings a day. I try really hard, though it’s been close to impossible these past couple of years, to have writing time. My ideal situation would be an uninterrupted patch between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., but that’s rare. It’s painful not to have the time, because writing is a way that I make sense of […]

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