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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

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 14, 2023

Wallpapering

My husband, an aspiring rock god, owns a T-shirt reading, “How many guitars do I really need? Just one more.” Many Janeites harbor...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 26, 2019

Color-coordinated Austen

It’s been clear for a while now that Jane Austen has evolved from revered writer into lifestyle brand: FamousJane, bringing you Classy...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 20, 2014

Austen first impressions

Margaret C. Sullivan*, known for the past decade as the editrix of AustenBlog, picked her first Jane Austen paperback off a drugstore’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 7, 2013

Judging books by their covers

Not too long ago – OK, it was last month, but I only just noticed – New York magazine ran a feature on the runaway popularity of...