In the Double Minority
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Novelist Philip Roth recently predicted that within twenty-five years,
reading novels will be a “cultic” activity, reserved for an enthusiastic
minority wh...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Disappointment: A Jane Austen Tour
If you have time to read a blog post that started life as a twenty-page paper, here's a link to the talk on Jane Austen I gave this evening at the Northfield Public Library as part of the National Library Week celebrations.
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So interesting....I'm a shameful former English major who has only read Pride and Prejudice, of all the Jane Austen novels. But I love England, with all its literary history, and I would love to go back someday. Loved to see the photos in your talk (via the link)...
By the way, someday I will not be sitting outside my two-year-old's nursery door at 7 p.m. on a weeknight, trying to re-sleep-train her to go to bed at night without crying, and I will actually be able to do things like go to readings at the library.
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