Deborah YaffeOct 18, 2017The wild and wanton Jane AustenFifty-three years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote that, while he could not fully define hard-core pornography, “I...
Deborah YaffeMay 3, 2017Jane Austen meets Texas debsThe year advances apace, and yet there still doesn’t seem to be a release date for the supposed-to-come-out-in-2017 film adaptation of...
Deborah YaffeOct 2, 2016Twisted Austen?By now, the juxtaposition of sex with the supposedly decorous Jane Austen has lost much of its incongruity: We’ve all run across...
Deborah YaffeAug 10, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Collins HemingwayJane Austen fanfiction is a female-dominated field. That’s not surprising: Twenty-first-century Austen fandom is heavily female, and many...
Deborah YaffeJul 27, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jane JuskaLet us stipulate that Mrs. Bennet draws the short straw. Her clever, ironic husband treats her with thinly disguised disrespect. Her...
Deborah YaffeMay 11, 2016Finishing the already finishedExcited as I am to see Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Lady Susan, I’ve been more than a little skeptical of...
Deborah YaffeMay 8, 2016Eligible: Skyline chili and marshmallow fluffIn the 1940 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, played by the great comic actress Edna May Oliver, turns...
Deborah YaffeMay 4, 2016Sanditon: Adapting Austen and DobbsRegular blog readers know that I’m squeeing with excitement over the upcoming film adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...
Deborah YaffeApr 10, 2016Talking Jane Austen fanfictionMy next book-related event is scheduled for this Wednesday, April 13, in Princeton, NJ: I’ll be speaking at our lovely independent...
Deborah YaffeJan 25, 2016Re-leash Mr. Darcy, pleaseThe life of a Jane Austen video completist is not easy. Yes, it’s true that in the service of her mission – to see and, ideally, to own...
Deborah YaffeJan 18, 2016Popcorn time for JaneitesWe Janeites fondly remember the years 1995-1997, when no fewer than six Austen adaptations hit the big screen in the US. The next few...
Deborah YaffeJan 7, 2016Now that's what I call book promotionI speak from experience when I say that it’s a jungle out there in the book-marketing world. Very few authors command the prestige and...