{"id":21969,"date":"2014-04-14T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=21969"},"modified":"2014-04-01T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T00:14:07","slug":"the-most-of-nora-ephron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-most-of-nora-ephron\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most of Nora Ephron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1027469\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21970\" alt=\"most of nora ephron\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/most-of-nora-ephron.jpg?resize=270%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"270\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/most-of-nora-ephron.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/most-of-nora-ephron.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1027469\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Most of Nora Ephron<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is a whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America&#8217;s funniest &#8211; and most acute &#8211; writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we&#8217;ve been living it these last forty years.<\/p>\n<p>Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is here &#8211; from her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman (the notorious piece on being flat-chested, the clarion call of her commencement address at Wellesley) to her best-selling novel,<a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=789335\" target=\"_blank\"><em> Heartburn<\/em><\/a>, written in the wake of her devastating divorce from Carl Bernstein; from her hilarious and touching screenplay for the movie When Harry Met Sally . . . (&#8220;I&#8217;ll have what she&#8217;s having&#8221;) to her recent play Lucky Guy (published here for the first time); from her ongoing love affair with food, recipes and all, to her extended takes on such controversial women as Lillian Hellman and Helen Gurley Brown; from her pithy blogs on politics to her moving meditations on aging (&#8220;I Feel Bad About My Neck&#8221;) and dying.<\/p>\n<p>Her superb writing, her unforgettable movies, her honesty and fearlessness, her nonpareil humor have made Nora Ephron an icon for America&#8217;s women&#8211;and not a few of its men.<em> (description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most of Nora Ephron is a whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America&#8217;s funniest &#8211; and most acute &#8211; writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we&#8217;ve been living it these last forty years. Everything you could possibly want from Nora<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-most-of-nora-ephron\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[165,2624],"class_list":["post-21969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-humor","tag-women-writers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5Il","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21971,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21969\/revisions\/21971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}