Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Maria Semple’s ‘Today Will Be Different’
Today will be different. It’s the name of Maria Semple’s new novel, and it’s a promise that main character, Eleanor Flood, makes to herself first thing in the morning on October 8. Today Will Be Different charts a single day in the life of Eleanor, married to Joe, mother of Timby, former animator of a cult children’s show called Looper Wash.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readToday will be different. It’s the name of Maria Semple’s new novel, and it’s a promise that main character, Eleanor Flood, makes to herself first thing in the morning on October 8. Today Will Be Different charts a single day in the life of Eleanor, married to Joe, mother of Timby, former animator of a cult children’s show called Looper Wash. The novel is hilarious and touching. And it’s vintage Maria Semple, who wrote the bestseller Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
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3 of 4One year since the Porter Ranch gas leak, what’s changed?- 0:30AT&T and Time Warner: The $85.4 billion deal
- 9:23The Aliso Canyon gas leak one year later
- 26:55Maria Semple’s ‘Today Will Be Different’You’re reading this
- 43:07Remembering liberal icon Tom Hayden