Divorced Business Partners
by Emily Hyland
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Apr 2026 on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard.
The general take
Emily Hyland mentions that Divorced Business Partners came out in 2024 and notes there's a poem in the book about her night in jail, speaking about it in a positive, somewhat lighthearted way. Based on the limited comments provided, she seems proud of the work, though we don't get much detail on what she or Dax actually think of the book's content or value.
About
"Emily Hyland's inventive debut is a frank chronicle of one couple coming together and apart as they struggle through the high-stress adventure of launching a restaurant. In sharply drawn scenes—tender, aching, brutal, and comic almost all at once—Hyland creates a kind of documentary sequence, a portrait of people trying their best to love and to work. As richly dimensional as a novel, Divorced Business Partners is bracingly contemporary and thoroughly alive." —Mark Doty, author of What is the Grass? Walt Whitman in My Life " Divorced Business Partners is an ambitious poetic debut. Hyland covers a universe of emotional ground—one that announces itself in the tradition of Plath, Sexton, and Olds—inviting the reader into the interior of a failing marriage and a breaking heart as it journeys towards healing. The language is precise and sharp.
Who said what
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…emily hyland discussing her book about her divorce from business partner matt
“And you published Divorced Business Partners? Yeah, which I saw is on your shelf. Yes, yes, we have. So what year did that come out? That came out in 2024. There's a great poem in there about my night in jail, just saying.”
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard — Emily & Matt Hyland (Emily Burger)at 46:05
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