 Long Island Compromise is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's second novel. Her first best-selling book, Fleshman is in Trouble, was adapted into an FX series on Hulu. First News. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The White House is declining to confirm a New York Times report that visitor logs show a neurologist who recently published a paper on Parkinson's visited the White House eight times between last summer and this past spring.