Scribble Scribble: Notes on the Media
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039450125X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 157 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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E. Jahneke said Some of the essays were in Crazy Salad. so I'd read them before(and, you know, last month,) so in some ways this book was a victim of bad timing. This book would be a worthwhile read otherwise though.. "Although it took longer than I thought to received this" according to Amazon Customer. Although it took longer than I thought to received this book, it exceeded my expectations regarding the quality of the product.. Back Cover Copy A wicked, often hilarious look at opinion-makersSCRIBBLE SCRIBBLEIs a bestseller because "Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything."- John Leonard, The New York TimesSCRIBBLE SCRIBBLEIs a bestseller because "it's funnier than anything else I've read this year."-Martin Levine, NewsdaySCRIBBLE SCRIBBLEIs a bestseller because Nora Ephron wrote it. She is "as tart and refreshing as the first gin and tonic of the summer."-Joe McGinnis, The New York Times Book Review"Shrewd and funny!"-Walter Clemons, Newsweek"P
Two exceptions are a discerning low-key interview with Russell Baker and a funny piece on ""Uncle Art"" Ephron the TV carpet campaigner. From March 1975 to July 1977 Nora Ephron entertained the readers of Esquire with word that: Dorothy Schiff was what was wrong with the New York Post; People magazine was ""a potato chip"" (it ""makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything""); Brendan Gill's Here at the New Yorker was ""one of the most offensive books I have read in a long time""; Bob Haldeman took CBS for $50,000 (those feeble, self-serving interviews) and Richard Goodwin maneuvered Esquire out of $12,500 and an apology--in the process demonstrating, Ephron contends (in a piece that ran in MORE after Esquire refused it), that everything charged against him was true. Including ""Nobody really cares.. The pity of it is, she knows better: every damning thing that can be said about this compost heap, Ephron says about one or another of her trashy subjects (and, covering her tracks, about herself for having written about them). What most of these media phenomena have in common, besides Ephron's contempt for them, is that they had no merit or standing B.E. From Kirkus: Scribble scribble, indeed. There are also personality pieces, curiously complementary, on the silly, insular Palm Beach Social Pictorial and the cozy, insular Ontario