I can't complain : (all too) personal essays /
Lipman, Elinor.
I can't complain : (all too) personal essays / I can not complain Elinor Lipman. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. - xii, 161 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
My introduction and my thanks -- Meet the family. Julia's child -- The funniest and the favorite -- How to get religion -- Good grudgekeeping -- No thank you, I think -- Sex ed -- The rosy glow of the backward glance -- I still think, Call her -- A tip of the hat to the old block -- My soap opera journal -- On writing. Confessions of a blurb slut -- No outline? Is that any way to write a novel? -- Which one is he again? -- It was a dark and stormy nosh -- Assignment: What happens next? -- I touch a nerve -- My book the movie -- You author's anxieties: a guide -- Coupling columns. Boy meets girl -- May I recommend-- -- I want to know -- A mister and missus -- Monsieur clean -- Ego boundaries -- I married a gourmet -- I sleep around -- The best man -- Since then. This is for you -- Watching the Masters by myself -- We [heart] New York -- A fine nomance.
A winning collection of essays about home, love, cooking, politics, and the writing life from the acclaimed novelist.
054757620X (hbk.) 9780547576206 (hbk.)
2012040360
American essays.
I can't complain : (all too) personal essays / I can not complain Elinor Lipman. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. - xii, 161 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
My introduction and my thanks -- Meet the family. Julia's child -- The funniest and the favorite -- How to get religion -- Good grudgekeeping -- No thank you, I think -- Sex ed -- The rosy glow of the backward glance -- I still think, Call her -- A tip of the hat to the old block -- My soap opera journal -- On writing. Confessions of a blurb slut -- No outline? Is that any way to write a novel? -- Which one is he again? -- It was a dark and stormy nosh -- Assignment: What happens next? -- I touch a nerve -- My book the movie -- You author's anxieties: a guide -- Coupling columns. Boy meets girl -- May I recommend-- -- I want to know -- A mister and missus -- Monsieur clean -- Ego boundaries -- I married a gourmet -- I sleep around -- The best man -- Since then. This is for you -- Watching the Masters by myself -- We [heart] New York -- A fine nomance.
A winning collection of essays about home, love, cooking, politics, and the writing life from the acclaimed novelist.
054757620X (hbk.) 9780547576206 (hbk.)
2012040360
American essays.