(“I love your dress,” one question began.) There were several queries about Ms. Smith - wearing a black-and-white dress and a pair of pink heels - was appearing in conversation with the novelist Leslie Jamison, the audience Q. Smith became that most surprising of things, a celebrity poet.Īt the church, where Ms. (The first was “Keep Moving,” released in 2020.) Somehow between the publication of “Good Bones” and now, Ms. 3 position for hardcover nonfiction, is actually the second book Ms.
“You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” which just made its debut on The New York Times’s best-seller list in the No.
Alert readers will recognize the title as a line from her viral 2016 poem “ Good Bones,” which became a social-media hit and then a wider cultural phenomenon, a “mantra of hope in hard times,” as Slate put it. Smith’s marriage - from her discovery of her husband’s affair to his decision to walk out - and how writing helped her survive it. The book, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” is about the collapse of Ms. The pews were crowded with admirers, many feverishly reading her new memoir even as they waited for her to speak. Dimensions: 7.92in - 5.30in - 0.52in - 0.The American poet and writer Maggie Smith exudes a beatific warmth, so it seemed apt - a felicitous pairing of author and venue - that her recent book tour included an evening at a Brooklyn church.Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé Book Details And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs" is no consolation. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes.įor in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter.
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