Some people can sit down and write the story of their lives in a clear and straightforward fashion and be done. Other people, like New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast—author of wise, honest, unreasonably entertaining new graphic memoir about aging, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?—approach autobiography per Emily Dickinson’s legendary advice: Tell all the truth but tell […]
I’m a huge fan of audiobooks, especially when they have a great narrator, and I can’t imagine a more perfect pairing of book and reader than Meryl Streep performing the late, great Nora Ephron’s Heartburn. Movie buffs are no doubt nodding in recognition, recalling that Streep is, in fact, so right for the role that she played the female […]