To anyone who doesn’t write, this might seem unfathomable. But sometime around 3 in the morning, I went downstairs, made coffee and opened my laptop. For an hour I lay beside him, knowing this was the last time I’d ever get to do that. Over the 19 months that separated the day of Jim’s diagnosis from the moment I woke up next to him in our bed and knew his heart had stopped, I had barely set foot in the room that housed my desk. He looked me square in the eye as he spoke. Six years ago, a few weeks before he died from pancreatic cancer, my good and well-loved husband made an observation from his hospital bed. Which it received in 1986, starring cinema royalty Meryl Streep in the lead.LEFT ON TENTH A Second Chance at Life By Delia Ephron Oh, did we mention she's seven months pregnant and the mistress is a swanlike beauty with legs for days? A comedy with a side of misery, this one's begging for the screen treatment. Shop NowĬookbook author Rachel Samstat just learned news that would make even the sweetest soufflé taste sour: Her husband's having an affair. A singular voice, Ephron reflects on the early days of her career-memories of her time working as a mail girl at Newsweek and writing for Esquire-while taking every opportunity to get real about her life at the time she was penning this memoir, making sure to leave no 'senior moment' unturned. I Remember Nothing is full of anecdotal gifts you will never forget. She goes on to share other truths, too, about women and getting older. 'Your neck is the thing saying, 'Don't kid yourself.' You can put spackle on your face, basically, but this is the thing that is saying, 'Uh-oh.'' In other words, the neck doesn't lie. In this 2006 book, Nora Ephron got candid about the harsh yet glorious truth that is aging. Below, we're recounting Nora Ephron's best books. So before you start poring over the most anticipated books of 2020, let's reflect on the work of a woman who wrote page after page telling it like it is. From her essays in Esquire to her screenplays for Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally., she made us laugh, love, and fall into a blubbering mess.

You see this New York Times quote plastered all over every book jacket that shares her byline: 'Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything.' The late Nora Ephron, who passed at 71 in 2012, was funny, truthful, frank and unapologetic.

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