Nora Ephron’s nonchalant conversationalism is the engine of her magic, so it’s a little surprising that it took 30 years for her book “Heartburn” to take on its third and optimum media form: the audiobook.
Heartburn
”—Nora Ephron’s novel, from 1983, a fictionalization of the end of her marriage to the philandering journalist Carl Bernstein—is good, often great, with moments of real dazzle and zing, it’s maybe not the very best work in the vast. The narrator, Rachel Samstat, is a food writer and cookbook author in her late thirties, seven months pregnant with her second child.
The movie version of “Heartburn” makes clear that the best part of the novel is Rachel’s narration—her gimlet evisceration of her various crises, her close read of her own narcissism, her exquisite sensitivity to the social signifiers of the early nineteen-eighties, her off-the-cuff Borscht Belt punch lines. The reason “Heartburn” didn’t land as a movie was because it watched Rachel Samstat through a camera, instead of watching everyone else through Rachel Samstat.
I first downloaded the “Heartburn” audiobook several years ago, out of a sense of Ephron completionism, and also perhaps out of an overly personal affinity for Rachel Samstat as a character. For one reason or another, I never got around to actually listening to it until recently, as the longwinter faded into a dull gray pandemic spring, and I needed something to listen to while driving to and from various grocery stores.
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