Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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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Model city

Now this is a community event I can get behind. Over the weekend of January 10-12, the city of Modesto in California’s Central Valley is...

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Keeping up with the Jameses

Some weeks, the Austen-related news tidbits that come my way are scattered and disparate, lacking any unifying theme. And then there’s...

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Party like it's 1995

You remember 1995, right? The beginning of that halcyon eighteen-month stretch during which six Jane Austen film adaptations, ranging in...

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Popcorn time for Janeites

We Janeites fondly remember the years 1995-1997, when no fewer than six Austen adaptations hit the big screen in the US. The next few...

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Guess who?

The good people who, despite all my entreaties to the Gods of Cinema, are bringing us the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and...

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Good news about P&P&Z?

For months, the best news I could imagine hearing about the filmed adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith’s...

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A date with the zombies

The movie of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has a release date! And it is. . . (drum roll, please). . . February 19, 2016! So stop me...

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Undead at last

The time for silver-bullet and stake-through-the-heart jokes is officially over. The movie version of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies has not...

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Games Janeites play

It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...

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Can't anyone kill this beast?

Janeite news of the week is the apparent resurrection – cue undead jokes here – of the filmed version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...