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The novelist Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney turned 60 last August. How did she celebrate?
“I cooked dinner for my family,” she recalls with an only slightly rueful smile.
Sweeney and her husband, Mike, a longtime head writer for Conan O’Brien, left their New York City home in 2009 for Los Angeles. While COVID has put a damper on big birthday plans, Sweeney is surprisingly sanguine about life in Los Feliz. “I can walk in Griffith Park, for example,” she tells me via video call. “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. That was a happy moment for our family.”