Heartburn

I picked this up at a lending library kind of surprised I've never read it before it turned out that Ephron's vinaigrette recipe from this little book still has power over people. Caveat to this is that parts have aged POORLY (along with many, many, many other things that have aged poorly): for example, I don't think I realized that Ephron was privileged enough that her life included multiple domestic workers, etc. Obviously, it's very, very funny. Ephron's zest for life, even when things are going very poorly, is omnipresent, and her humor is multipurpose in a really excellent way: at times totally avoidant and at times instead deepening the pathos of whatever she is joking about. Finally, Carl Bernstein is an idiot. Maybe he and Ephron shouldn't have stayed married, but GEEZ was he an emotional fuckwit to her.