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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Nora Ephron

1. July 20, 2012 05:02 PM

   On that piece in Tablet

   It was selfish writing that needlessly caused pain to others

   By Kira Goldenberg

   When Nora Ephron succumbed to cancer late last month, many remembrances noted the writer’s embrace of her mother’s assertion that “everything is copy.” Indeed, Ephron wrote a close-to-real-life novel about her divorce from Carl Bernstein, personal essays about topics ranging from breast size to aging, and movies that masterfully evoke the flavor of life on the Upper West Side, which...

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2. June 27, 2012 05:14 PM

   The Nora Ephron problem

   The writer's passing leaves big shoes to fill, but she inspired plenty of women to fill them

   By Cyndi Stivers

   Before she felt bad about her neck, Nora Ephron felt bad about her breasts. When she was a 19-year-old virgin, her boyfriend's mother offered a suggestion: "Always make sure you're on top of him so you won't seem so small." At first, as Ephron wrote in her column in Esquire, she thought her beau had put the woman up to...

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