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 ���ames 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 ���nding the silver lining in disasters.

Conversation on an Afterlife