![]() ![]() ![]() To date, she wrote, she had been telling curious readers and audience members at book events that it was the result of careful research. ![]() The use of fiction based on real life was foregrounded elsewhere this week in a piece by Jessica Knoll, author of the hit thriller Luckiest Girl Alive, who used Lena Dunham’s newsletter Lenny to announce that the gang rape in her novel was based on personal experience. “She’d won, and every betrayed woman in the world knew it.” Rebellion against rape “Very few people can survive a public cuckolding,” says Nichols, and compares the actions of his old friend to a cat changing direction in midair. It is the late Mike Nichols who sums up Heartburn’s enduring power. (He cheated on Ephron when she was seven months pregnant with their second child, then fought her all the way over custody and child support.) Nonetheless, his willingness to play the injured party is extraordinary, given the events that precipitated the writing of the book. ![]() It is over 30 years since the novel was published, and Bernstein, who was made to look not only duplicitous but also highly foolish in its pages, is clearly still very angry. ![]()
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