Bloomberg Businessweek · 2026-06-30 · 19 min
The people, companies and trends shaping the global economy. Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: . Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now, his career is floundering, his marriage to a high-powered woman is crumbling, and the only bright spot in his life is Astrid, the Norwegian au pair who cares for their children-and reveres his neglected novels. But what begins as a secret infatuation soon spirals into a scandal that makes them both infamous. With inexorable momentum and sly, lucid prose, Teddy Wayne's The Au Pair is a sleek literary thriller about desire, deception, and the unraveling of a man as he grapples with his fading relevance-when the lies others spin pale beside the fictions we tell ourselves For more, Carol Massar Tim Stenovec speak with Teddy Wayne, Author of 'The Au Pair' See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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