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So You're In a Reading Slump
Does the childhood magic of reading feel out of reach right now for you, too? Here are seven books that might help.
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Valentine Greetings From A Few Long-Dead Authors
A bit of literary humor I simply couldn't resist.
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Twenty-Four Highlights From 2024
A truncated recap because we all have stuff to do.
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Resting On My Post-Holiday Laurels
Resolving to make no resolutions in January.
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In Which I Recount My Adventures at the Jane Austen Conference
(Otherwise known as the Jane Austen Society of North America's Annual General Meeting, or JASNA AGM)
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If Jane Austen Characters Attended Zoom Thanksgiving
A 2020 rerun for a little laugh today.
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An Apologetic Letter From the Avonlea School Board to the Irate Parents of Gilbert Blythe
The protagonist’s character development is surely more important than a minor thwack to the head
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How to Succeed as a Nineteenth-Century Novelist
Want to write like the wordy Victorian pros? Here are some not-so-serious tips.
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Trendy Diet Plans from Classic Literature
Literary weight loss isn't a fad. It's a lifestyle.
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Five Buckets of Nerdy Nostalgia (and Eighteen Rolls of Toilet Paper)
Children, books, gowns, catastrophes, and so on.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Deliberately Meta Writing Process for Maximum Spook
How Poe purposefully set out to make “The Raven” evoke gothic melancholia — with no creative flights of fancy involved.
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Here's Why Pride and Prejudice Will Never Translate Perfectly to the Screen
Yes, Netflix is making a new P&P adaptation. And I have Thoughts. (What a shock.)
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