From her Academy Award-nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is among America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. With this classic assortment of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American lifestyle with like, cynicism, and unrivaled wit. From searching for the beginnings from the self-help motion to dressing down the fashion world’s most powerful publication to capturing a glimpse of a legendary film in the building, these timeless parts utilize our long lasting obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment, and sex. Whether casting her ingenious vision on renowned director Mike Nichols, Cosmopolitan journal creator Helen Gurley Brown-or herself, as she chronicles her very own beauty makeover-Ephron deftly weaves her journalistic skill using the intimate style of an essayist and the incomparable talent of a great storyteller.