Sweet, rich and fattening foods, from duck sauce to doughnuts, are Rachel’s forbidden fruit. With its deadpan tone and self-loathing female narrator attempting to escape her self, the novel may call to mind Ottessa Moshfegh’s “ My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” But where Moshfegh’s protagonist lives to sleep, Broder’s antiheroine lives to eat. … Talent management was not my dream, and this hurt him.” In between these triumphs of self-denial, Rachel somnambulistically reports to work at a Hollywood talent management agency, where her fatuous, frat-brother-like boss addresses his clients as “my duuudes” and makes “constant references to his ‘privilege,’ also our privilege to be working there. Estranged from her family, from her body and from the spiritual world, the so-named Rachel obsessively plans and counts her highly restricted caloric intake down to the last muffin top, then forces herself to burn off 3,500 of said calories per week at the gym. An exploration of hunger centered on a young woman with an eating disorder who finds salvation in the arms of an Orthodox Jewish frozen yogurt scooper, “Milk Fed” is an even stranger animal than this description might suggest. Tigelaar and Best Day Ever are repped by UTA and Wendy Kirk & PJ Shapiro at Ziffren Brittenham.If there was ever a novel to defy a one-sentence description, Melissa Broder’s new novel would be it. Tigelaar previously served as EP/showrunner of Hulu’s Golden Globe-nominated comedy series Casual.īroder is repped by UTA, Lighthouse Management + Media, Meredith Kaffel Simonoff of DeFiore & Company, and Ginsburg Daniels. Tigelaar is developing multiple projects under her Best Day Ever banner at the studio.
The series is nominated for five Emmy awards, including outstanding limited series. Tigelaar most recently served as executive producer/showrunner of Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere, produced by ABC Signature. Broder has written for The New York Times,, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York magazine’s “The Cut.” As a screenwriter, Broder adapted and sold The Pisces to Lionsgate with Anne Carey producing (20th Century Women). ABC Signature is the studio.īroder also is the author of the novel The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Tigelaar will serve as showrunner if the project is ordered to pilot and executive produce with Best Day Ever’s Stacey Silverman as well as Broder.
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