I Remember NothingAnd Other Reflections

Nora Ephron

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I Remember Nothing

By: Nora Ephron

Narrarated by: Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron returns with her first audiobook since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.

Ephron writes about falling hard for a way of life (“Journalism: A Love Story”) and about breaking up even harder with the men in her life (“The D Word”); lists “Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again” (“There is no explaining the stock market but people try”; “Cary Grant was Jewish”; “Men cheat”); reveals the alarming evolution, a decade after she wrote and directed You’ve Got Mail, of her relationship with her in-box (“The Six Stages of E-Mail”); and asks the age-old question, which came first, the chicken soup or the cold? All the while, she gives candid, edgy voice to everything women who have reached a certain age have been thinking . . . but rarely acknowledging.

Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true—and could have come only from Nora Ephron—I Remember Nothing is pure joy.

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  • Edition: Unabridged
  • Author: Nora Ephron (See All Books)
  • Date Released: Nov 8, 2010
  • Publisher: Random House Audio
  • Genre: Essays, Humor Nonfiction

Total File Size: 85 MB (3 files) Total Length: 3 Hours, 7 Minutes

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11.08.10
Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing
2010 | Label: Random House Audio

The beloved director turns her charisma and honesty onto her past
Nora Ephron narrates her audiobooks so beautifully one wonders if she writes them just so she can read them out loud. First, Ephron wittily tackled aging with her crisp, likable voice in 2006′s I Feel Bad About My Neck. Now she turns her charisma and honesty onto the past, with her new essay collection I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections, a look at, amongst other things, her fascinating rise as a young woman through the competitive journalism scene in New York City.

“The past is slipping away and the present is a constant affront I can’t possibly keep up,” Efron admits early in the book, but there’s no doubt her mind is a steel trap about her life. And there is so much to mine here: family grudges against famed New Yorker writer Lillian Hellman, and a guilt-ridden recollection of a friendship with playwright Lillian Ross. And Efron wrote for Newsweek, where she describes the atmosphere as being one of “institutionalized sexism.”

She went on to write for the New York Post when it was still liberal, and then was a columnist about women’s issues for Esquire. Through it all, she navigated the tricky old boys' club atmosphere of the media world. Of her hard drinking, hard-playing male journalist peers she writes, “They thought they had invented non-fiction, which they hadn’t. And they even thought they had invented hanging out together in restaurants and staying late.”

Wry and whip-smart, Ephron could be your career counselor, your therapist, or at the very least, your mother. And you’d be well advised to listen up.

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