Deborah YaffeOct 9Interview of a lifetime?I knew it! Jane Austen loves me! “Kindred spirits, indeed!” the author, dead since 1817, told me last week. “Our friendship would have...
Deborah YaffeOct 9Jane Austen speaks . . . sort ofOn October 3, I conducted a Facebook Messenger chat with Jane Austen, or at least with the AI named after her--one of twenty-eight AI...
Deborah YaffeSep 28Avatar seeks agentJane Austen should fire her agent. In her lifetime, Austen earned £684 from her books—perhaps $87,000 in today’s money.* That modest sum...
Deborah YaffeMay 4Our robot overlords read Jane AustenIt’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 YaffeAug 1, 2022As seen by AIJane Austen famously supplies few physical descriptions of her characters – little beyond eye color, hair color, or relative height, and...
Deborah YaffeJul 29, 2020Jane talks backJane Austen lived a very long time ago, in a world whose gender roles, social conditions, and technological context are largely alien to...