Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Bantam Books (Mm) (1979), Edition: mass market edition
Description
This volume is a collection of the columns the author wrote for Esquire magazine from 1975 to 1977. Her subject was the media, especially print journalism. She presents her opinions of 1970's media -- from People magazine, Daniel Schorr and the Assassination reporters, to the Palm Beach Social Pictorial, Gourmet magazine and the lure and history of the Double-Crostic. Stabbing, tackling and (occasionally) hugging her colleagues of the press and screen, the author reveals her contempt for the Haldeman-CBS episode; her passion for Upstairs, Downstairs; and her jaundiced view of Brendan Gill on The New Yorker and Teddy White on anything.
User reviews
LibraryThing member slipstitch
Essays about journalism and food writing and culture from the late '60s and early '70s. It's interesting how many issues were urgent then that don't matter now. That reflects on the author, though--she writes mainly about the key notes of the time rather than universals.
LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
Nora Ephron like many journalists, produced some short pieces about the media. This is that edgy anthology. Some of the issues no longer matter, but to set the historical stage of the era, these are very useful.
Original language
English
Physical description
6.9 inches
ISBN
0553122754 / 9780553122756