A party supported by pals who made it through rush hour rain was appropriate for an anthology celebrating female friendshipNervous as I am of organising parties, I could hardly have launched a book about friendship without throwing one. And so it was that last Tuesday night, I found myself in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-09-14 15:00:31 UTC ]
Ella Risbridger muses on the pain-writing-money trifecta, Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, and memoir as fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism Lulu Miller in praise of “the uncrushable beetle.” | Lit Hub Nature How Kiki de Montparnasse, a muse with a mind of her own, “essentially invented the idea of making an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-06 10:30:41 UTC ]
Philipott’s memoir-in-essays, “Bomb Shelter," is an insightful ode to the ups and downs of life. Nora Ephron would approve. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-04-11 11:00:03 UTC ]
Maeve Higgins, author of the wickedly funny new essay collection 'Maeve in America,' picks books by Aisha Tyler, Nora Ephron, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to books this week! First, a couple of stories that you can find only online: THE BIG STORY John Smelcer’s YA book “Stealing Indians” is a finalist for the recently announced PEN Center USA awards. Questions about Smelcer have been raised since 1994, when he was teaching at the University... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind. This is a good rule of thumb. Despite the temptation, it would be mean-spirited to object to the barrage of shallow Facebook postings about Steve Jobs, gratuitous to gripe that Nora Ephron, though a terrifically talented... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]