![]() ![]() Not Sweeney.īooks Novelists are writing for TV more than ever. ![]() Such success might lead a writer to stress over the dreaded sophomore slump. Acclaimed as “fetching,” “biting and addictive,” “The Nest” became a bestseller and was optioned by Amazon Studios. Her debut novel, “ The Nest,” came out in 2016, when she was 55 - and had just finished her MFA at Bennington Writing Seminars. It’s been a happy few years for Sweeney, pandemic and dislocation notwithstanding. “We’ve been able to see friends outside on our patio.” One of their two sons works in food service but “just got the vaccine. ![]() “I can walk in Griffith Park, for example,” she tells me via video call. While COVID has put a damper on big birthday plans, Sweeney is surprisingly sanguine about life in Los Feliz. Sweeney and her husband, Mike, a longtime head writer for Conan O’Brien, left their New York City home in 2009 for Los Angeles. “I cooked dinner for my family,” she recalls with an only slightly rueful smile. The novelist Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney turned 60 last August. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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