Sightings 3/14

The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Using up the leftovers

Before leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 19, 2023

Cracking Easter eggs

Back in April, when a (supposed) first edition of Sense and Sensibility made a cameo appearance in the Apple soccer comedy Ted Lasso,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 5, 2023

Polite confusion

Titles can’t be copyrighted, but usually, this isn’t a problem: No one is likely to mistake a classic Victorian novel for a 1970s boxing...

Deborah Yaffe

May 18, 2023

Ubiquitous Austen

Back in 2004, when Margaret Sullivan launched the indispensable AustenBlog, she chose a tagline that reflected Jane Austen’s pop-culture...

Deborah Yaffe

May 8, 2023

Our robot overlords read Jane Austen

It’s a truism that the best way to improve your writing is to read the work of good writers. Apparently, this maxim holds true even for...

Deborah Yaffe

May 4, 2023

Walk the line

It’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 30, 2023

Down Under Austen

Over in the opposite hemisphere of the globe, it seems, they’re reading a lot of Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from a couple of...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 27, 2023

Listening ears

For the past week or so, my Google alert has been crowded with versions of the same story: William and Kate—that’s the Prince and...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 23, 2023

Matilda's reading list

Earlier this month, the Telegraph reported that, in reissuing books by the beloved-but-controversial children’s writer Roald Dahl, his...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 27, 2023

Dinner time

A common Janeite fantasy goes like this: You meet Jane Austen. Naturally, she finds you interesting and delightful. You get her take on,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 29, 2022

Unintimidated

Just in case all the usual reasons to admire Ukrainians -- courage, grit, unshakeable commitment to democracy – aren’t enough for you,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 26, 2022

Sugarplums

As Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 19, 2022