I love the Tribune. I really do. This from their review of Becoming Jane, found via AustenBlog:
But the idea that every work of art has direct, identifiable roots in reality is too simplistic. And in film and fiction alike, it leads to a scavenger-hunt approach to biography, as complicated lives are reduced to a sequence of possible clues.

But the ( Read more... )

Last week's edition of Newsweek was the "global literacy" edition. There's an article on Jane Austen, and while I don't want to rant . . .

The title of the article is given in trivia format, as with the rest of the edition:

TRUE or FALSE: Jane Austen Outsells Alice Walker and Ann Coulter
Now, as much as I enjoy Alice Walker's writing, already I'm ( Read more... )