Deborah YaffeApr 13, 2015Austen at your fingertipsThe stream of heartfelt yet weird homages to Jane Austen really never stops. Today’s entry: ten replications of the silhouette of Jane...
Deborah YaffeApr 9, 2015Go west, young JaneiteThis Sunday, I’ll be speaking and signing copies of Among the Janeites in Seattle, courtesy of the Puget Sound chapter of the Jane Austen...
Deborah YaffeApr 6, 2015Calling all Austen nerdsGiven the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...
Deborah YaffeApr 2, 2015A date with the zombiesThe movie of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has a release date! And it is. . . (drum roll, please). . . February 19, 2016! So stop me...
Deborah YaffeMar 30, 2015Cliffside paradiseSo it turns out there’s a cliffside hotel with amazing views of the Pacific where all the rooms are named after famous writers and, since...
Deborah YaffeMar 26, 2015On this day in 1817. . .Third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. The letter Jane Austen wrote to her eleven-year-old niece, Caroline...
Deborah YaffeMar 23, 2015Pink covers, blue coversLast week, I ran across this interesting piece about gender bias in reading – or, more precisely, in the choice of whose books we read....
Deborah YaffeMar 19, 2015Love letters and babies in bonnetsOkay, I admit I’m mostly linking this because I get a kick out of the baby-in-a-bonnet photo. But it’s also true that this coming...
Deborah YaffeMar 16, 2015Smells Like Jane SpiritTo paraphrase Mr. Darcy, I have been a verbal being all my life – no affinity for music, hopeless at art, allergic to sports. For me,...