{"product_id":"still-talking-isbn-9781685892517","title":"Still Talking","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature...\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe eagerly awaited follow-up to\u003ci\u003e Ladies' Lunch, \u003c\/i\u003ebeloved \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer Lore Segal's final story collection returns with further tales of the old friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Segal writes with welcome clarity about  life’s final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they  think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom of a  life spent writing wondrous stories and essays, a career spent telling  the truth.\"\u003ci\u003e—Slate \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLore Segal is a master of the short story, and this collection shows her in peak form. Profound, dark, and often hilarious, Segal portrays her characters foibles, eccentricities and passions with great compassion and exactness, as they grapple with life, aging, and each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders of \u003ci\u003eLadies Lunch \u003c\/i\u003ewill recognize the educated, urbane nonagenarian women who have been friends for a lifetime, as they tackle aging’s affronts with wit, grace and resourcefulness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an Introduction by Vivian Gornick\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eLADIES' LUNCH \u003c\/i\u003e(2023)\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker's\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year in 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year in 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker's\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books We've Read This Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books We've Read This Week \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eBooks To Round Out This September\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Best Books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Our Monthly Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mysterious, mesmerizing ...\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom of a life spent writing wondrous stories and essays, a career spent telling the truth.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading \u003ci\u003eLadies’ Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e, one can only be thankful that Segal has not 'thrown away' her people or her memories, which have given us this indispensable road map of our final journey.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e— \u003c\/i\u003eAnn Levin, \u003ci\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gemlike stories from a master of the form.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e— Kirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003eSTARRED Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Segal brings her rapier wit to this intelligent collection...Segal’s unfailing ear and light comedic touch belie the momentous, existential nature of her subject matter. This is funny and moving in equal measure.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lore Segal celebrates with humor and grace the friendships that stand the test of time and the particular eccentricities of aging...\u003ci\u003eLadies' Lunch,\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightful example of Segal's quick and clever wit.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Shelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These witty, sparky tales of ninetysomething Manhattanite ladies who lunch capture the everyday stuff of ageing.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We are lucky to have this piercing collection...\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLore Segal \u003c\/b\u003e(1928 - 2024) was the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novels \u003ci\u003eHalf the Kingdom, Lucinella, Other People's Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHer First American\u003c\/i\u003e and the collection \u003ci\u003eThe Journal I Did Not Keep\u003c\/i\u003e. Her story collection\u003ci\u003e Ladies Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e book of the Year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSegal received the American Academy Arts and Letters Award, a  Guggenheim Fellowship, The O'Henry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow  Prize. Her work appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e,  and numerous other publications. In 2023, Segal was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivian Gornick\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book  Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American  Essays 2014\u003c\/i\u003e. 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