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Biography & Autobiography.
Essays.
Nonfiction.
Humor (Nonfiction.)
HTML:A bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pasttimes??from one of the most creative minds of our time.
??Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything.???The New York Times
From her Academy Award??nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America??s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement to dressing down the fashion world??s most powerful publication to capturing a glimpse of a legendary movie in the making, these timeless pieces tap into our enduring obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment, and sex. Whether casting her ingenious eye on renowned dire… (lisätietoja)
Interesting read about 1960's artists like Mike Nichols and Ann Rand, Cosmo founder Helen Gurley Brown and Claiborne and Beard, when Nora Ephron was a journalist. I particularly liked the article "Diary of a Beach Wife" about when the wifes leave NY for the summer, and the article about Arthur Frommer. ( )
I was drawn to this book because I like Nora Ephron's witty, self-deprecating style and also because one of the articles deals at length with the "foodie" scene in the 1960s, (in which I'm very interested) but which seems a world away now and featured such luminaries as Julia Child, James Beard, Judith Jones and others. Renowned as a talented journalist and story teller, Nora Ephron has written much better stuff than this. As she herself admits in the introduction to the collection, written some years later, these articles are symptomatic of the younger, more self-obsessed, vain and somewhat shallow person she was at the time (and weren't we all at some time in our previous lives?). Somehow her trademark cynicism and wit fall flat in these articles, it's as though she's trying too hard. They are as most other people have noted, very dated, clearly because they are commentaries on a culture that has long since changed and evolved. For that reason, they may have had a good deal more impact and provided refreshing insights into the various worlds she describes at the time they were published, but they just haven't weathered well. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
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Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Wallflower at the Orgy, my first collection, was published in 1970. (Preface to 1980 Edition)
Some years ago, the man I am married to told me he had always had a mad desire to go to an orgy. (Introduction)
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Above all, do you understand that you are not as important as what you are covering? We are now in an era when the I-lost-my-laundry-while-covering-Yalta school of reporting has become an epidemic; when serious books that involve reporting often tend to be suffused with the author's admiration of his own investigative techniques; when the narcissism of the press almost outstrips the narcissism elsewhere in the country. The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replace by the journalist as the life of the party. (Preface to the 1980 Edition)
Biography & Autobiography.
Essays.
Nonfiction.
Humor (Nonfiction.)
HTML:A bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pasttimes??from one of the most creative minds of our time.
??Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything.???The New York Times
From her Academy Award??nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America??s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement to dressing down the fashion world??s most powerful publication to capturing a glimpse of a legendary movie in the making, these timeless pieces tap into our enduring obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment, and sex. Whether casting her ingenious eye on renowned dire
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