The Delicate Prey - And Other Stories

Eva Scrivo on Beauty gives you the virtual experience of sitting in Eva’s chair at her salon and provides guidance on topics such as:

• Designing the right haircut for your features and lifestyle.
• Selecting hair color to complement your skin tone and add dimension to your cut.
• How to give yourself a salon-worthy blowout.
• Understanding what part of your beauty routine can be done at home and when to invest in the services of a skilled professional.
• Finding and effectively communicating with a good stylist.
• How the right eyebrow shape and color can change your entire face.
• Effective beauty routines for the morning, nighttime, and in between.
• Beauty foods that nourish your hair and skin.
• Overcoming the negative impact that stress has on your looks.
• Making smart fashion choices to pull it all together.
• And much more!

The Way the World Works, Baker’s second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. Baker moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. He writes about kite string and about the moment he met his wife, and he surveys our fascination with video games while attempting to beat his teenage son at Modern Warfare 2. In a celebrated essay on Wikipedia, Baker describes his efforts to stem the tide of encyclopedic deletionism; in another, he charts the rise of e-readers; in a third he chronicles his Freedom of Information lawsuit against the San Francisco Public Library.

Nora Ephron was a Jill of all trades whose resumé included work as a journalist, novelist, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, director and producer. She’s best known for her work on movies such as “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Julie & Julia.” But she was equally beloved in various circles as a feminist writer, unapologetic memoirist, energetic hostess and devoted friend. This e-single, comprised of articles from The New York Times archive, looks at Ephron’s life and work through the lens of The Times, where she was also a frequent contributor until her death in 2012.