Ethan Taubes: […] Although a decade earlier, I once did confront my father about the book after it had come out. It was one of those charged conversations between fathers and sons. So, I asked him, “What do you think of Divorcing?”

Rachel Pafe: What did he say?

Ethan Taubes: He looked at me—gave me this kind of Mephistophelean smile—and said, “Well, I was taken down in flames and put on the operating table.” But he added with a kind of wicked, nefarious, cunning look, “But let’s not forget that she did sign the book ‘Susan Taubes,’ not with her maiden name.” For my father, it was always better to revel in notoriety than receive no recognition at all. He was always very clever at finding the silver lining in disasters.

Conversation on an Afterlife