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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
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Decompressing with Jane
In the past seven years, I’ve blogged at least twice about a recurrent motif: reading Jane Austen for a temporary escape from the horrors...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 9, 2023
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Interview 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 Yaffe
Oct 9, 2023
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Jane Austen speaks . . . sort of
On 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 Yaffe
Oct 9, 2023
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Avatar seeks agent
Jane 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 Yaffe
Sep 28, 2023
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Victory lap
Less than two weeks ago, apropos of my latest effort to stamp out the online plague of fake Jane Austen quotes, I wrote, “I like to...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 4, 2023
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P&P Barbie
The summer’s biggest movie, Greta Gerwig’s delightful and touching Barbie, knows women well—really, really well. The proof? Mr. Darcy...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 7, 2023
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Complications
Is Jane Austen: a) the patron saint of romantic love? or b) the avatar of hard-headed, pragmatic--even borderline-mercenary--marital...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 3, 2023
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Dear diary
Let me start by pointing out that I do understand the concept of clickbait. Really, I do. But still, I’m left breathless at the moxie of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2023
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Misaligned stars
Four months ago, as blog readers will recall, I turned to the internet for reading suggestions and discovered that my Zodiac sign...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 29, 2023
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Using up the leftovers
Before leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 19, 2023
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Cracking Easter eggs
Back in April, when a (supposed) first edition of Sense and Sensibility made a cameo appearance in the Apple soccer comedy Ted Lasso,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5, 2023
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Polite confusion
Titles can’t be copyrighted, but usually, this isn’t a problem: No one is likely to mistake a classic Victorian novel for a 1970s boxing...
Deborah Yaffe
May 18, 2023
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