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Journalist and author
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
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Marked up
The world can be divided into two categories: People who leave their books unsullied, and people who mark them up. And if a prominent...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 7, 2023
Flipping Austenian pancakes
If your house is anything like mine, this time of year features a whole lot of food. There are foods to provide for guests and family...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 4, 2023
Second chances
July 1997. A lavish birthday party for a controversial royal paramour. Her old flame and current lover, the future king of England, rises...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 30, 2023
Short and sweet
Fellow novelists do not invariably appreciate Jane Austen—looking at you, Charlotte Brontë!—but it’s always a pleasure when they do. And...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 27, 2023
Roots
As my family and our guests gather around our Thanksgiving table today, the menu will include a roasted carrot salad discovered in a...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2023
Rebooting Clueless: The Musical
Almost five years ago, I saw the off-Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical and found it a disappointingly pallid version of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 20, 2023
Jane Austen universe(s), Part II
If you spend your days reading Jane Austen novels and consuming Jane Austen adaptations and talking to fellow Jane Austen fans and...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 16, 2023
Janeite abroad
Jane Austen has a substantial following in Ukraine, it seems. This is not something I knew two years ago, but a lot has changed in the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 13, 2023
Decompressing with Jane
In the past seven years, I’ve blogged at least twice about a recurrent motif: reading Jane Austen for a temporary escape from the horrors...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 9, 2023
Adaptable
In the two centuries since Jane Austen’s death, her novels have proved almost infinitely adaptable, transmuted into stage plays, radio...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 6, 2023
Correspondence course
Last year, the Huntington Library in Southern California announced the acquisition of an annotated trove of nearly four hundred letters...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 2, 2023
It's that time again
Signs of autumn: Falling leaves. Halloween pumpkins. And the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, which...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 30, 2023
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