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She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron Hardcover – September 6, 2016

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“A portrait that’s both complex and moving...Nora would be pleased.” —People (Book of the Week)

Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship.

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie director (Sleepless in Seattle; You’ve Got Mail; When Harry Met Sally; Heartburn; Julie & Julia). She wrote a slew of bestsellers (I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman; I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections; Scribble, Scribble: Notes on the Media; Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women). She was celebrated by Hollywood, embraced by literary New York, and adored by legions of fans throughout the world.

Award-winning journalist Richard Cohen, wrote this about his “third-person memoir”: “I call this book a third-person memoir. It is about my closest friend, Nora Ephron, and the lives we lived together and how her life got to be bigger until, finally, she wrote her last work, the play, Lucky Guy, about a newspaper columnist dying of cancer while she herself was dying of cancer. I have interviewed many of her other friends—Mike Nichols, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Arianna Huffington—but the book is not a name-dropping star turn, but an attempt to capture a remarkable woman who meant so much to so many other women.”

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“A portrait that’s both complex and moving . . . Nora would be pleased.” ― PEOPLE (book of the week)

“Gracious, elegant . . . Cohen captures a brilliant woman full of contradictions . . . A warm tribute to a rather bossy know-it-all companion in arms who was hugely talented and fiercely devoted.” ― Kirkus Reviews

“If it’s true that everyone did want Nora as their friend, after reading this lovely and loving memoir, it should be equally true that everyone should want Cohen as theirs. Muse and foil, colleague and crony, Cohen had access to all sides of this decidedly multifaceted woman and reveals not only those of the public Nora everyone admired but also the private Nora whom a very lucky few adored.” ― Booklist, starred review

“A clear-eyed, episodic, and moving tribute . . . Cohen creates a portrait of the Ephron behind the public persona . . . Ephron proves a complex subject, but one who is clearly adored and greatly missed by Cohen. . . The most beautifully rendered portrait of her comes in the last few chapters, which chronicle the end of her life. Here, Cohen writes with emotion, perspective, humor, and grace—the perfect combination, perhaps, to represent his dear friend.” ― Publishers Weekly

"An eternal snapshot of America’s most beloved female writer and filmmaker, as seen through the eyes of one of her closest companions. . . . There is a quality to [Cohen's] prose that shows the living, breathing person behind When Harry Met Sally, one that a regular biographer would be challenged to convey. . . . The book is timeless, but Cohen’s crowning achievement comes in the final few chapters. Here, Cohen chronicles Ephron’s final battles with the illness that would ultimately take her life. While I’d recommend picking up a family pack of Kleenex prior to reading, the emotion, humor, and perspective with which Cohen writes will uplift your spirits rather than drag them down." ― Hampton Sheet

“[A] very personal remembrance of [Ephron’s] life and loves, and her ups and downs.” ― USA Today

“She Made Me Laugh is more about the good times with Ephron than the bad. Cohen is a terrific writer, and his book is a fine tribute to a fascinating woman.” ― Houston Chronicle

“A book from someone who truly was a friend of Ephron, a man who dined and traveled with her and heard many an amusing anecdote that didn’t make it into an essay or a zippy line of film dialogue. . . . Cohen offers the nuanced perspective of a confidant.” ― The Washington Post

About the Author

Richard Cohen is the former publishing director of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton and the author of Chasing the Sun, By the Sword, and How To Write Like Tolstoy. Works he has edited have gone on to win the Pulitzer, Booker and Whitbread/Costa prizes, and twenty-one have been #1 bestsellers. For more than 35 years he has written, edited, and lectured on numerous subjects around the world, from talks on the Queen Mary 2 to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium. For seven years he was a visiting professor in creative writing at the university of Kingston-upon-Thames in London. Among the authors he has edited are Madeleine Albright, Vanessa Redgrave, Sebastian Faulks, Studs Terkel, John Keegan, Richard Holmes, John le Carre, Jeffrey Archer, Sir Harold Evans, Tony Benn, Barbara Castle, William Trevor, Kingsley Amis and Fay Weldon. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

For two years he was program director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, and during his tenure it became the largest book festival in the world. Five times U.K. national saber champion, Cohen was selected for the British Olympic fencing team in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984 and has been four times world veteran champion. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review and most British quality newspapers.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; First Printing edition (September 6, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476796122
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476796123
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2022

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What a gift their friendship was to each other. I admire Nora Ephron enormously and am glad Richard Cohen decided to share so many memories with the readers of this book. By remembering the best of her, as well as her quirks and sharp edges, he gives a realistic portrait of a wonderful woman of great substance.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 17, 2016

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I have long been a Nora Groupie, and when she died in 2012, I was devastated. My love for her incredible wit and writing style started in the 70s and continued until her death. I have read her sister Delia's moving tribute to her, and I have also watched her son Jacob's equally moving (and fascinating) HBO documentary, "Everything Is Copy."

So I could hardly wait to get my hands on Richard Cohen's book, since he was one of her inner-inner circle. And what I found was an insider's guide to Nora that I am sure her plethora of friends and acquaintances loved, and rightly so. But what about the rest of us?

Amid the endless name dropping (all in an effort to explain how Nora effortlessly drew any acquaintance, no matter how famous, into her life) and anecdotes (some just lovely, some not so much), Cohen seems to be saying, "But I was the best! I was her BEST friend! I really, truly, really, really, loved her!" After a while, I started to feel that I was very much an outsider, that Nora would have found me a fool for loving her, and a lightweight besides. I would have been skewered by her sharp, and often cruel, wit--all described in this book. So for me, her light started to shine a bit dimmer.

What I got from the book was this: Nora Ephron was brilliant. No question whatsoever. She was talented as hell. She was a complex and contradictory human being, often the case with brilliant people. She was loving and giving, but she could turn on a dime and freeze somebody out. For those in her inner circle, like Cohen, she was something of a goddess. For others, she was the quintessential hostess, wit, conversationalist and nurturing friend. But she was also bossy to a fault. Cohen tells the story, which he found very funny, about how she absolutely insisted that he purchase a very expensive and unwieldy food processor from France--it was the ONLY food processor to own, she belligerently insisted. So he got the food processor, and laboriously used it--until he came to her kitchen several months later and found that she had quietly discarded her own French appliance--and bought a Cuisinart, which Cohen wanted in the first place, and which she had ridiculed. He found this story hilarious and endearing. I did not.

There are other such stories as well. I think Cohen, as a dear friend (and I do not dispute that), was at pains to show Nora with all her flaws, and to show people that even with these flaws, she was a paragon. It doesn't quite work. The more name dropping and descriptions of lavish vacations he described, the more I felt that I was on another planet.

My take on the book is this: If you knew and loved Nora, you will adore this book. Otherwise, skip it.

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CD in DC

As her sister told me, she was amusing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 8, 2016

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I've read this book twice and I suggest you start with acknowledgments, as that's who this book is really about. Sadly not Nora, who is even funnier in death. She was the genuine article, humiliated by her husband's long necked mistress, she ruminated about her own neck in print. As her mother said, everything is copy. I think she did love Cohen platonically which must have been different for him but mostly she loved life. As for what she would miss, she said simply "pie." Thanks for Silkwood, Sleepless in Seattle, Heartburn, Julie and Julia, all marvelous. And Mr Cohen, you misspelled Ritz-Carleton, she would never let you forget that one.

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N Don Brown

Enjoy the laughter. The tears. And mostly the love.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 16, 2016

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It's more than a personal review of a complicated and talented woman. Mr Cohen loved Nora in a way that many people have never enjoyed. This is a great read if you admired Ms Ephron as I have. It is the introspection that some one who knot only knew the woman but simultaneously loved and hated her. Nora lived other peoples lives and Mr Cohen captures the complexities of that perfectly. It really doesn't matter if you were an ephron fan or not this is a good read about two people who two loved each other especially for their warts.

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Nina

I knew little about Carly Simon but liked her music

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2016

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I knew little about Carly Simon but liked her music. The book was interesting and informative but it stopped with the end of her marriage to James Taylor. I wish it had continued about her life to the present.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 25, 2020

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Written by one of her best friends, "She Made Me Laugh...", is an average read at best. While it provides some insight into her life, the book gives a good sense of what it means to live in high society circles. And usually, Ephron was the center of everyone's universe. I was expecting more detailed about what made Ephron tick and her leap from writer to director. She is an intriguing character, and that comes through throughout the book, but I was hoping for a more well-rounded portrait of a woman who was more than an interested bystander in life.
Was hoping for more...Just average.

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She was talented writer and excellent director. I would not to have wanted to ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2016

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Well written. She was talented writer and excellent director. I would not to have wanted to know her in person. She was larger than life and over powering at times. But the world lost a wonderful talent whose talent was larger than life. Her death was dark day for insight and laugher and wisdom. Highly recommend book..

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John D. Law

Good book. Cohen panders.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2017

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It's a good book. Cohen sometimes becomes a pandering sycophant. I am a Nora fan. If you read between the lines, she could sometimes be a shrew.

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