Deborah YaffeFeb 27, 2014Goofy Austen News; or, Any Link to Jane Will DoThere are weeks when all you hear about Jane Austen is staid, decorous stuff: the prospect of a new film adaptation, or the exhibit of a...
Deborah YaffeFeb 24, 2014Martin Amis: Saved by Jane AustenI’m not a Martin Amis fan – The Rachel Papers so repulsed me that I’ve never cracked open another of his novels – but this interview...
Deborah YaffeFeb 20, 2014Vicariously visiting Jane Austen's EnglandThis summer, the Jane Austen Society of North America will once again sponsor a tour of Austen sites in England – the places she lived,...
Deborah YaffeFeb 17, 2014Next book talk: Princeton, NJMy next book event is very close to home: at my local synagogue, in fact. I’ll be speaking to the book club of the Jewish Center, 435...
Deborah YaffeFeb 13, 2014Wrapping up The Watsons in Winter“Each of us has a private Austen,” Karen Joy Fowler writes at the beginning of The Jane Austen Book Club, her 2004 novel about how...
Deborah YaffeFeb 10, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Jennifer Ready BettiolSome Jane Austen fanfiction is produced by professional writers with one eye on a potentially profitable market. But much Austen...
Deborah YaffeFeb 6, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Eucharista WardJane Austen’s life was steeped in religion. As the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she almost certainly believed in God, attended...
Deborah YaffeFeb 3, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Helen BakerNews flash: it’s hard to write like Jane Austen. I don’t just mean that it’s hard to emulate Austen’s diamond-bright sentences, with...
Deborah YaffeJan 30, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Merryn WilliamsMerryn Williams’ completion of The Watsons, Jane Austen’s fragment of a novel, is a modest undertaking. With new material that runs only...