Written and read by Jesse Eisenberg, The Ziegfeld Files is built from therapy recordings of a new father struggling to connect to his baby.
He talks about copying machines, early man, breastfeeding classes, failed jokes, sour oranges and Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. The result is something funny, uncomfortable and unexpectedly tender—a portrait of marriage, fatherhood and the strange performance of trying to say how you feel.
