During a January 2023 interview with Tonya Mosley on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Taffy Brodesser-Akner explained the origin of the section of her novel in which the newly single Toby finds that he is unexpectedly a wild success on dating apps: "I grew up with this brand of book, like a Portnoy's Complaint or an American Pastoral or Rabbit, Run--like a Philip Roth, John Updike, male-point-of-view story that I always loved. Those were my favorite stories. And what I found when my friends came to me and showed me their phones were that the men were having these ridiculously wonderful times on these phones and with their apps and dating. And for the women, it was relatively dismal. It was that the men their age were looking for somebody younger or thinner or with fewer kids or with no kids. And it got to the point where I would--I mean, I would look at--I have a friend who came over to my house once to change for a date because she had teenage daughters, and she didn't want them to know she was going on this date. And I said, show me your phone. I'm writing this book. Show me your phone. And she showed me her phone. And it was this guy. His profile description said something to the effect of, you know, my ex-wife was a psychopath. And if you're into playing games, please, swipe away from me. But if you're a normal person--you know? And I was like--and I said to her, what about this was interesting for you? And she said, it was the best of the crop in weeks. . . . I mean . . . It's really amazing. So when I wrote the book, it seemed like just a more fun way of entering the story, to tell the story of a man." This implies that what Toby perceives as his sudden desirability is really just an indication that he's the best of a pool of very bad options.
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