Another keen rendering of the humorous side to life. Her final, very short book of essays. I loved her poignant style and empathy.
I have now been reading Nora Ephron for 30 years and if it weren't for her unfortunate passing a couple of years ago I'd be thrilled to read her for another 30 years. Journalist, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright....all represented here in abundance. Smart and funny, decidedly a femini...
Watching the "in memoriam" montage at the Oscars on Sunday night reminded me that I hadn't yet gotten around to writing about Nora Ephron, one of our country's great writers, who died last year.Ephron was best known as a screenwriter and has been nominated for three Oscars and won a Writers Guild...
Wince, wince. Ouch. How can I give my hero a 3? But oh, I must. I fell in love with Nora Ephron when I read her book of essays called I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. The love affair continued when I read another collection of essays called I Remember Nothing: and Ot...
I just finished “Nixonland” and needed a softer view of the early 1970s, though I don’t think that’s what I got. I believe that Ephron places herself in the tradition of Dorothy Parker, and I am so far convinced that this is deserved. However, where Parker’s era compelled her to write in a pros...
I knew Nora Ephron as a screenwriter and filmmaker, but I was unaware of her literary output until I read various obituaries following her death earlier this year. Wallflower at the Orgy is the first book of hers I have read and won't be the last.Firstly, what an awesome title. It is explained in...
Obligatory GoodReads review musical accompaniment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NboaT3...#I have mixed feelings about this movie now, even tho I loved it for years and years after it came out. (It's one of the few films I loved as a teenager but do not now own on DVD.) It's sort of like Pretty ...