Before she wrote Silkwood, before she fictionalized her divorce from Carl Bernstein in the novel Heartburn, before she felt bad about her neck or put Sally with Harry or gifted the world with “I’ll have what she’s having,” Nora Ephron was a newspaper reporter. For five years, just out of Wellesley, she wrote for the [...]
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Nora Ephron on writing: seven insights
June 29, 2012 – 8:05 am
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news, tips
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Also tagged Carl Bernstein, Charlie Rose, Crazy Salad, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, New York magazine, New York Post, Nieman Foundation, Nieman narrative conference, Nora Ephron
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Katy Butler on Greek tragedy, reader comments and how “scenes keep you close to the bone truth of things”
July 6, 2010 – 2:56 pm
We recently spoke with Katy Butler about her New York Times Magazine piece, “What Broke My Father’s Heart,” our latest Notable Narrative. Butler, whose work has appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, Mother Jones and The Village Voice, currently teaches memoir writing at California’s Esalen Institute. Her account of the difference between the end-of-life care [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Cynthia Gorney, Esalen Institute, Ilena Silverman, Katy Butler, The New York Times Magazine
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