I read You, Again late last year based on your newsletter and I’ve been telling everyone I know to read it and everyone has loved it. So thank you. I also somehow found Heartburn on streaming sometime last year (Netflix, maybe, so perhaps it’ll come back?) and ofc the cast was fantastic but the movie just wasn’t as fun as the book. And really, how do you interject recipes into a movie? Not the same.
Ack! You could NOT have made me happier! This is what I like to hear! I’m delighted you read and enjoyed and payed it forward and that I played the inciting incident. I’ve heard heartburn is… not great as a movie and really it’s odd to adapt it just like story wise. Revenge and $ wise, for sure. But it’s all voice! There’s so little plot! And yeah all the little recipes, do they include them in the movie? How odd if so
Such a great collection! I want to reread this all immediately (if only I could COME BACK LIBRARY).
Nora’s writing is so incising and witty and perceptive. Rhetorically hot indeed! I love the quote you shared about slipping on a banana - that says so much about her and her storytelling.
Really too bad that you didn’t like the sequel to Hart & Mercy - I so enjoyed that one and the world was so weird and original.
Do you think there is a contemporary author who has the sharp eye and tongue of Nora? Obviously she is singular, but I wonder who is stepping into that void that she left.
there's going to be a third book in the series so fingers crossed it'll be back to the H&M level!
I listed a few authors that I get a similar cutting observational wittiness from but I'm definitely on the lookout for this type of voice. lemme know when you see it too!
I read You, Again late last year based on your newsletter and I’ve been telling everyone I know to read it and everyone has loved it. So thank you. I also somehow found Heartburn on streaming sometime last year (Netflix, maybe, so perhaps it’ll come back?) and ofc the cast was fantastic but the movie just wasn’t as fun as the book. And really, how do you interject recipes into a movie? Not the same.
Ack! You could NOT have made me happier! This is what I like to hear! I’m delighted you read and enjoyed and payed it forward and that I played the inciting incident. I’ve heard heartburn is… not great as a movie and really it’s odd to adapt it just like story wise. Revenge and $ wise, for sure. But it’s all voice! There’s so little plot! And yeah all the little recipes, do they include them in the movie? How odd if so
Such a great collection! I want to reread this all immediately (if only I could COME BACK LIBRARY).
Nora’s writing is so incising and witty and perceptive. Rhetorically hot indeed! I love the quote you shared about slipping on a banana - that says so much about her and her storytelling.
Really too bad that you didn’t like the sequel to Hart & Mercy - I so enjoyed that one and the world was so weird and original.
Do you think there is a contemporary author who has the sharp eye and tongue of Nora? Obviously she is singular, but I wonder who is stepping into that void that she left.
Thanks! :)
there's going to be a third book in the series so fingers crossed it'll be back to the H&M level!
I listed a few authors that I get a similar cutting observational wittiness from but I'm definitely on the lookout for this type of voice. lemme know when you see it too!