The Most of Nora Ephron

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Several of Ephron’s screenplays became some of the most celebrated films of the twentieth century, including When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail. a b c "BAFTA Awards Search | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023 . Retrieved August 13, 2023. Greatest Screenplays". Writers Guild of America West. Writers Guild of America West . Retrieved July 16, 2021. After graduating from Wellesley, Ephron worked briefly as an intern in the White House of President John F. Kennedy. [14] She also applied to be a writer at Newsweek. After she was told they did not hire women writers, she accepted a position as a mail girl. [15] Delia Ephron on the Closeness and Complexity of Sisterhood". Fresh Air. NPR. December 9, 2013. Event occurs at 1:18–1:44 . Retrieved December 11, 2013. Interview.

I'd never read Heartburn before and I really loved it. It's nothing groundbreaking, just a lightly fictionalized retelling of Ephron's own divorce, but the way she wrote it was just so vivid. It underscores how talented of a writer Ephron was.

This collection of interviews dives into the Ephron’s early years as a journalist, but it includes her final interview, a tear-jerking piece originally published in the Believer magazine.

Nora Ephron takes tragedy and bewilderment and spins them into rambling comedic reflections . . . [She and Joan Didion] are trailblazing Boomer-era best-selling writers, but both also illustrate with unusual force the rhythms of emotional confession and emotional withholding that have marked the golden age of journalistic writing by women that they shaped . . . When life gave Ephron lemons she made a giant vat of really good vodka-spiked lemonade and invited all of her friends and her friends’ friends over to share it, and gossip, and play charades . . . She knew how to capture every quirk, and she knew just when to cast the slightest shadow of doubt . . . Ephron’s fun-house lens distilled accomplishments and disappointments alike into excuses to laugh. She took comfort in the little things and held fast to the notion that every terrible experience might someday redeem itself by making a really funny story.”—Heather Havrilesky, Bookforum I have now, finally, read Heartburn and thumbed through the When Harry Met Sally script. Her food writings were a treasure. But I think she really shined on her blog posts and later articles for her last couple of books. Celebrities react to the death of Nora Ephron". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. June 26, 2012. She was Hollywood kept honest by New York, a cultural sophisticate driven by the gritty, truth-obsessed heart of a journalist.

In the language of now, Nora Ephron’s personal pieces, included in this rich, overstuffed new collection, are the kinds of selfies that don’t look fake and don’t make you sneer. If you cringe while reading “The Most of Nora Ephron,” it’s because what she has written is so painfully true. a b Goodman, Stephanie (April 25, 2013). "Nora Ephron Prize Is Given to Director of Farah Goes Bang". The New York Times. What really interested Ephron, for all her clever writing about food, politics and overcluttered purses, were matters of the heart ... She is wit without cynicism, the ultimate romantic. New York Times Yardley, Jonathan (November 2, 2004). "Nora Ephron's 'Crazy Salad': Still Crisp". The Washington Post.