Jane Austen was smart. She left the characters just where they needed to be left, with their lives ahead of them. Whatever good and bad those lives would bring, she left to our imagination.
Posted 11.28.2011
Who would dare to write a sequel to "Pride and Prejudice" - and turn it into a murder mystery? How about a world-famous novelist who is old enough ...
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011
In The King's Speech, Firth plays Bertie, a life-long stutterer on a quest to find his voice, especially since he suddenly becomes crowned King George VI of England in 1936.
Michael Thomas Ford | Posted 05.25.2011
It never occurred to me that making Austen a vampire was in any way disrespectful. Rather, I looked at it as giving her the chance to take revenge on those who have appropriated her literary genius for their own profit.
Alan Elsner | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't do explicit sex in my books because I'm more interested in love -- and love takes place in the mind where it has to fight for its existence against all the other challenges presented by life.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 05.25.2011
When I was reading, I started to realize that Barack Obama, the very-soon-to-be 44th President of the United States of America, is Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy.
Alan Elsner | Posted 02.27.2012