April’s Reviews > I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections > Status Update

We were always there for the end of June, my favorite time of year, when the sun doesn’t set until 9:30 at night and you feel as if you will live forever. On July 4th, there were fireworks at the beach and we would pack a picnic, dig a hole in the sand, build a fire, sings songs — in short experience a night when we felt like a conventional American family.

I adored the chapter on her journalism love story. And I’m delighted to find she knew a Navasky who was a newspaper editor. I hope this is where the character Frank Navasky (You’ve Got Mail) came from!

“Charles Portis (author of True Grit)…was no good at all at writing the formulaic, voiceless, unbylined stories with strict line counts that Newsweek printed.”

Proof that even brilliant writers can take time finding where they fit.