title: This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work
author: Kathy Kiernan
description: Retha Powers is executive editor of the Quality Paperback Book Club. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Essence, Ms., Vibe, and Glamour. She lives in New York City.<br /><br />Kathy Kiernan is co-editor of First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers. A former fiction editor at Jane magazine and now on the board of the Evergreen Review, she lives in New York City.
zlib_text: # Acknowledgments
  
  
  
  
  
  I thank, as always, Delia Ephron, Bob Gottlieb, Amanda Urban, and Nick
  Pileggi.
  
  
  
  
  
  And also Arianna Huffington, David Shipley, Shelley Wanger, David Remnick,
  Paul Bogaards, and Maria Verel.
  
  
  
  
  
  And also J. J. Sacha.
  
  
  
  
  
  And also, of course, my doctors.
  
  
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  ALSO BY NORA EPHRON  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  FICTION
  
  
  
  
  
  _Heartburn_  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  ESSAYS
  
  
  
  
  
  _I Feel Bad About My Neck_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Nora Ephron Collected_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Scribble Scribble_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Crazy Salad_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Wallflower at the Orgy_  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  DRAMA
  
  
  
  
  
  _Love, Loss, and What I Wore_ (with Delia Ephron)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Imaginary Friends_  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  SCREENPLAYS
  
  
  
  
  
  _Julie & Julia_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Bewitched_ (with Delia Ephron)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Hanging Up_ (with Delia Ephron)
  
  
  
  
  
  _You’ve Got Mail_ (with Delia Ephron)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Michael_ (with Jim Quinlan, Pete Dexter, and Delia Ephron)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Mixed Nuts_ (with Delia Ephron)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Sleepless in Seattle_ (with David S. Ward and Jeff Arch)
  
  
  
  
  
  _This Is My Life_ (with Delia Ephron)
  
  
  
  
  
  _My Blue Heaven_
  
  
  