“Denial was a talent she greatly admired. She could have been Gentile, except, of course, she wasn’t.”

Ephron croppedHow does a humorist write about death? This is what I wondered when I opened Delia Ephron‘s memoir, which has a piece called “Losing Nora” about her famous sister. She relies a lot on the formula that we see in the quote above: she starts by saying the opposite … Read More