Deborah YaffeSep 21, 2015Janeite retirementOne of the many pleasures of researching Among the Janeites was the chance it gave me to meet fellow Austen fans from across the country...
Deborah YaffeAug 3, 2015DFW/JAAs far as I know, David Foster Wallace had nothing to say about Jane Austen. (Admittedly, I don’t know for sure, since I’ve never read a...
Deborah YaffeJul 30, 2015Malice and malwareThe big Jane Austen news this week: the evil, soulless folks who get their jollies – and their profits – by infecting your computer with...
Deborah YaffeApr 16, 2015The Austen Fiasco?Halfway to the finish line, the Austen Project is looking increasingly like the Austen Fiasco. The Austen Project, as you may recall, is...
Deborah YaffeOct 20, 2014Must stop can't stopI really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...
Deborah YaffeSep 11, 2014Another brick in the wallWas it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
Deborah YaffeAug 25, 2014Pet Austen Peeve #83: Movie Quotes Aren't Book QuotesI suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...
Deborah YaffeJun 5, 2014Comma-counting across the centuriesI’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...
Deborah YaffeMar 31, 2014Austen on the (Indian) small screenMore international Jane Austen: an Indian TV channel is launching a show “based loosely” on Sense and Sensibility. (Not to be confused, I...
Deborah YaffeDec 19, 2013Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen booksLook, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
Deborah YaffeOct 28, 2013Dissed by the Austen ProjectJoanna Trollope’s modern-dress adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the first in a planned series of six Austen updates by popular...
Deborah YaffeSep 19, 2013Hey JanePride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. It’s the one that gets assigned in high school, makes the top-novels-of-all-time...