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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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Now that's what I call book promotion
I 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...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 7, 2016
Kicking off the Austen Catch-Up Project
The first days of the new year are a time for bracing confessions of inadequacy, so here’s (one of) mine: I’m a lazy Janeite. Every...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 4, 2016
Ring in 2016 with Emma
No doubt you’ll all be spending New Year’s Eve at glitzy, glamorous, altogether fabulous parties across the country and, indeed, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2015
The multi-faceted Mr. Woodhouse
Amid the flood of tributes, appraisals and critiques unleashed by last week’s bicentennial of Emma, I’ve been intrigued to note the...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 28, 2015
The worst Christmas ever?
Despite the New York Times’ efforts to persuade us otherwise, Jane Austen is not a Christmassy writer. It’s true that the word...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 24, 2015
Happy birthday to Emma
This Wednesday – the bicentennial of the publication of Emma – also marks the kickoff of “Emma in the Snow,” a blog series hosted by...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 21, 2015
Jane Austen's new career
It’s always inspiring to hear about people who have shifted gears later in life, learning new skills or realizing old dreams. But who...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 17, 2015
Regency improv
Were I to be in London tonight – which, alas, I am not – I would snap up a ticket to see Austentatious, an acting troupe that improvises...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 14, 2015
The twelve-word Austen
This weekend, New York City Janeites will gather to celebrate The Birthday with a presentation by Jack Wang, half of the duo behind the...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 10, 2015
Short or long, but not by Austen
As a newspaper reporter many years ago, I heard New Jersey’s then-commissioner of education give a speech featuring a self-deprecating...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 7, 2015
Austen's living room
Looking for a good place to curl up with your battered copy of Emma, celebrating its bicentennial in two weeks? If you happen to be in...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 3, 2015
On this day in 1814. . .
Ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. We know so little of Jane Austen’s views on nearly everything that...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 30, 2015
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