Author of the Month: Nora Ephron
Selected by the Bookshop
Our author of the month for April this year is the director, producer, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and essayist Nora Ephron.
Her 1983 novel Heartburn, later made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, is a fictionalised response to the breakup of her marriage with Carl Bernstein, and somehow manages to be both agonising and very, very funny. Her essays for Esquire magazine, beginning with the controversial ‘A Few Words About Breasts’ in 1972, established her as ‘the enfant terrible of the New Journalism’. Her work throughout her career, across several forms of media, was characterised by a caustic wit that barely conceals a passionate anger about the status of women in a patriarchal society.
Take a look at her works in print here, and come and see them in the flesh on our dedicated Ephron table throughout April in Bury Place.
Recommended by Gayle
‘Finally I have something to recommend when people ask for a funny book! Heartburn is properly hilarious, like a 200 page stand up set, except less mean, and with more food.’
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