![]() ![]() So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke. When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh. This is a brilliant collection for women of all ages to laugh at and appreciate. She recalls her mother telling her ‘Everything is copy,’ and she made a career out of it. She received Academy Award nominations for. I think the essence of what makes Nora’s work so readable is:ģ. Nora Ephron was the author of the hugely successful I Feel Bad About My Neck, I Remember Nothing, and Heartburn. Some subjects may appear trivial ( I Hate My Purse) but are tremendously entertaining and unifying – we all know someone with a handbag like Nora’s. Her essays Serial Monogamy: A Memoir and On Rapture respectively cover her love with cooking and reading. NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM DOLLY ALDERTON, revealing how a new generation can take inspiration from Noras sharp wit and wisdom. The essays were all feature articles in publications and news outlets including Vogue, The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar and The New York Times.Īcross this collection, Nora tackles love, marriage, ageing, real-estate, parenting, death and more. ![]() I Feel Bad About My Neck – And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, is a collection of essays written by Ephron across her career as a journalist and magazine writer. ![]() I have previously reviewed Heartburn, which is, as Ephron admits, a thinly disguised novel of events that happened in her personal life. She has the exact level of witty neuroticism that I aspire to in my own personal writing. ![]()
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