Psychological
What if the worst thing that happens to you is also your best material?
Nora Ephron's second husband had an affair while she was seven months pregnant. It was humiliating, devastating, public. She turned it into the novel and film Heartburn. The worst chapter of her life became one of her best-known works.
Everything is copy.— Nora Ephron, quoting her mother
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The thinker
Writer, Director, Essayist
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) was an American journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker known for When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and her razor-sharp personal essays.
Based on Everything Is Copy — HBO Documentary on Nora Ephron, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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