Elyssa Friedland

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Elyssa Friedland is the author of four novels. She attended Yale University, where she served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News, and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. She worked as an associate at a major firm before turning to writing full-time. Elyssa currently teaches creative writing at Yale. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, POPSUGAR, RealSimple.com, Bustle, Modern Bride, New York magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, CBS MarketWatch.com, Yale Alumni Magazine, and Your Prom. Elyssa resides in New York City with her husband and three young children.

THE FLOATING FELDMANS was a People Magazine “People Pick” and a “SkimmReads” selection and was praised by Cosmopolitan, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, National Geographic, Woman’s Day, Woman’s World, Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist and more. THE INTERMISSION was praised by The Wall Street Journal, SheReads, PureWow, POPSUGAR, HelloGiggles and featured in USA Today. Her debut novel, LOVE AND MISS COMMUNICATION, was a “best book” in Cosmopolitan, Glamour and InStyle magazines. She is also a co-author of FIRST STREET, a serialized novel available in electronic and audio formats on the platform Serial Box, about four ambitious lawyers clerking at the Supreme Court.

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things book

bookThe Sun Also Rises; The Corrections; Cutting for Stone; Harry Potter; The Space Between Us; The Expatriates


bookColdplay, Hamilton soundtrack, anything my daughter plays on the piano


bookMalbec, Sauvignon Blanc


bookBoggle, Scrabble, Rummy Kub


bookFrench fries and the penne a la vodka from Carbone


bookLondon and New York


bookRoy Lichtenstein; Anselm Reyle; Julian Opie and all masterpieces made by my kids


book2x day (Illy)


bookThe Wire; Game of Thrones; VEEP; 30 Rock


bookFather of the Bride and Match Point

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