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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Revisiting Franzenfreude, and A Roundup of Female Writers

This Year Female Writers Kicked Up Literary Dust
is my annual year-end literary wrap up at Women's eNews, with a twist of Franzenfreude.

"(WOMENSENEWS)--The year's biggest literary controversy was set off by two women who write "women's fiction:" Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner.

The two complained on Twitter and in a joint interview on the Huffington Post about a culture of "white male literary darlings" who mesmerize influential critics at publications such as The New York Times Book Review and leave female authors--particularly commercial ones-- out in the cold..."


read more!

And happy holidays, readers.





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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Buy Books for the Holidays, or the World Will End Up This Way

Books for Christmas? at the New Yorker's "Book Bench" blog.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

"Hidden Gem" Books of 2010

Weird And Wonderful Books: 2010's Hidden Gems : NPR lists a few books that are too offbeat to make it onto year-end lists.

Speaking of year-end lists, more on that tomorrow...

HAPPY SOLSTICE, readership.



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Goodbye, Poetry in motion

Literary Quotations on Subway Trains Come to an End, by my good friend Mike who covers transit for the Times.

"The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided to discontinue a program featuring signs with poetry and other literature on the city’s subway trains."
This is a nice elegy for a program I loved. My little "Poetry in Motion" book was one of my favorite, well-curated anthologies. Like a "Rattle Bag" for the modern age.



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Friday, December 17, 2010

It's Never The Wrong Time for Some Feminist Readings of Jane Austen

Happy belated birthday, Jane Austen! at feministing, by Chloe Angyal, who includes these tantalizing lines:

"If Caroline Bingley is a bitch, it’s not her fault. Society made her that way...

... resist the urge to hate on Caroline Bingley. Remember: don’t hate the player. Hate the game. Jane Austen did, and it made her one of the most adored authors of all time. "


Read on...


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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Literary Birthday: EBC Patron Saint #1 Jane Austen


They never made 'em like her again, as best expressed in a chat between me and my twin brother, after he had read "Emma" followed by "Ethan Frome."

Daniel: finished ethan frome
me: whatdjoo think? no "emma" right"
Daniel: no emma.


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Downton Abbey Trailer


Masterpiece is sooooo back.



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Monday, December 06, 2010

Jane Austen and the Youth in the WSJ

Jane Austen's Popularity Grows With Young on the Web - WSJ.com

What these articles always neglect to mention is that young people love Jane not just because she's like, totally relevant to our man problems, but because she's you know, profound and a genius.

Still, the article is good and it quotes lots of friends of this blog, including folks from my local JASNA chapter and Laurie Viera Riegler, author of "Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict."

So click on through!

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