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Journalist and author
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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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2020
Sisterhood is powerful
I was not enthusiastic about Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. Although the show,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 29, 2020
Tripping
Plans are apparently progressing for Trip, a gay-themed Pride and Prejudice update set on the New York gay mecca of Fire Island and...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 18, 2020
Silver linings
There’s an upside to everything, apparently – even a global pandemic that threatens to sicken and perhaps kill millions while tanking the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 11, 2020
Immortal, beloved
Twenty-five years ago this summer, we Janeites flocked to movie theaters to see a brand-new modernization of Emma, set among affluent...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2020
Emma again
Actor/playwright Kate Hamill has cornered the market on energetic, quirky theatrical adaptations of classic literature – Vanity Fair,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 24, 2020
Emma fashionista
The new feature-film adaptation of Emma opened this past weekend, but not, alas, in my neck of the woods, where we proles must wait until...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 17, 2020
The big event
We’re just days away from one of the year’s big Janeite events: Friday’s U.S. opening of the new feature film adaptation of Emma, a week...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 16, 2020
Have another one
Just when you thought it was safe to put some cookies in the oven, toss a few snowballs, and top your hot chocolate with a dollop of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 13, 2020
Bewitching
Search engine optimization and web analytics are topics about which I know very little. (OK: nothing.) So when Google sends me its...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2019
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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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 16, 2019
Sanditon farewell?
Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2019
Fruitcake
As the holidays approach, you may be bracing for the arrival of that winter perennial, the fruitcake -- baked months earlier, soaked in...
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