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Neck and neck: Nora Ephron knows almost as little about the joy of wrinkles as she does about the grit of Texas women.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-NOV-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Neck and neck: Nora Ephron knows almost as little about the joy of wrinkles as she does about the grit of Texas women.(I feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Growing up, the high points of my month were the "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" feature my mother's Good Housekeeping and Nora Ephron's column in my father's Esquire. GH generally advised women to "make it work" at any cost--to hang on like a barnacle no matter what kind of low-life, cheating, bedroom-challenged, BO-ridden dog he was. Nora, on the other hand, pointed the way to a world so large, so filled with possibilities, that marriage might or might not even be part of it.

Which is why I was cheering when her new collection of essays, I feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list. I eagerly helped her out with my own purchase, even though, page for page, the slender volume was the most expensive book I've ever bought. (Twenty-two dollars with tax for 137 pages? State secrets have sold for less.)...

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