I wonder what she would have had to say about current topics of conversation such as #MeToo and Donald Trump’s presidency.Įphron’s final collection of essays ‘I Remember Nothing And Other Reflections’ was published in 2010. There is also a “break-up” letter with Bill Clinton, and an account about working as an intern at the White House in 1961. The final essay ‘What I Wish I’d Known’ offers pearls of wisdom such as “Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from” and “The world’s greatest babysitter burns out after two and a half years”. Like all good comedy, the second essay ‘I Hate My Purse’ will elicit instant recognition in anyone who has ever used a handbag and emptied the detritus that accumulates in there. Some of the things Ephron discusses in these short essays might be regarded by some as first-world problems, but she writes with real warmth and she is particularly good at observing women’s insecurities around ageing. Her essay collection ‘I Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman’ was published in 2006 and has recently been reissued. Best known as a screenwriter and director of films such as ‘Sleepless in Seattle’, ‘You’ve Got Mail’ and ‘Julie and Julia’, Ephron’s career began in journalism in the 1960s. It is rare for me to read consecutive books by the same author, but Nora Ephron’s are both very short and very funny and therefore eminently binge-readable.
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