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Still Talking

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Author: Lore Segal
ISBN: 9781685892517

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Available on Mar 10, 2026 | 128 Pages

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“For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature…”—The New York Times

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies’ Lunch, beloved New Yorker 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.

“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.”—Slate

Lore 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.

Readers of Ladies Lunch will recognize the educated, urbane nonagenarian women who have been friends for a lifetime, as they tackle aging’s affronts with wit, grace and resourcefulness.

With an Introduction by Vivian Gornick

PRAISE FOR LADIES’ LUNCH (2023)
2023 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist
The New Yorker’s Best Book of the Year in 2024
A Slate Best Book of the Year in 2023
The New Yorker’s Best Books We’ve Read This Week
Shelf Awareness Best Books We’ve Read This Week
Literary Hub Books To Round Out This September
A Barnes & Noble Best Books of 2023
A Barnes & Noble Our Monthly Pick

“Mysterious, mesmerizing …” —The New York Times

“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.” — Slate

“Reading Ladies’ Lunch, 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.” — Ann Levin, The Forward

“Gemlike stories from a master of the form.” — Kirkus Reviews, STARRED Review
“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.” —Publishers Weekly

“Lore Segal celebrates with humor and grace the friendships that stand the test of time and the particular eccentricities of aging…Ladies’ Lunch, is a delightful example of Segal’s quick and clever wit.”—Shelf Awareness

“These witty, sparky tales of ninetysomething Manhattanite ladies who lunch capture the everyday stuff of ageing.” —The Times

“We are lucky to have this piercing collection…”—Times Literary Supplement

Author

Lore Segal

LORE SEGAL is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Shakespeare’s Kitchen, as well as the novels Half the Kingdom, Lucinella, Other People’s Houses and Her First American. She is the recipient of the American Academy and the Institutes of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The O’Henry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, and numerous other publications. In 2022, Segal was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Science. She has also written children’s books and translates from the German. Segal lives and works in New York City.

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By Lore SegalIntroduction by Vivian Gornick