Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Saying A Fond Farewell
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Downton Abbey: What Did You Think of Episode 1?
Jane Around the Web...
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Revisiting Franzenfreude, and A Roundup of Female Writers
"(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..."
And happy holidays, readers.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Buy Books for the Holidays, or the World Will End Up This Way
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
"Hidden Gem" Books of 2010
Goodbye, Poetry in motion
"The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided to discontinue a program featuring signs with poetry and other literature on the city’s subway trains."
Friday, December 17, 2010
It's Never The Wrong Time for Some Feminist Readings of Jane Austen
"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. "
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Literary Birthday: EBC Patron Saint #1 Jane Austen
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 06, 2010
Jane Austen and the Youth in the WSJ
So click on through!
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
JANE EYRE TRAILER (be still, my heart)
Friday, October 15, 2010
NBR Finalists Include 13 Women. Yay?
The National Book Award finalists were announced yesterday. And for the first time ever, 13 of the 20 finalists were female. They included Lionel Shriver, (acclaimed Jewish novelist) Nicole Krauss, and most wonderfully, alternative punk rocker Patti Smith for her recently published memoir. Jonathan Franzen, subject of so much acclaim and backlash in recent weeks, was notably not on the list.
Read the full blog post here.