Two Things
A chewy interview with Ada Palmer over at mrissa's LiveJournal. Makes me want to sneak in and listen when Ada is talking about narrative process.
Second thing, I met with my Jane Austen group yesterday afternoon, to go see "Love and Friendship" which was showing two miles from here. What a delightful film! They really did a good job with a somewhat problematical book; Austen wrote three epistolary novels when she was young, and turned two of them into Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility but she never published Lady Susan--which both shows flashes of her genius, and is problematical.
But this writer captured the spirit of the book, and this is the time when such a book/film could be enjoyed, as it breaks the rule of nineteenth century novels that Bad Women Must Always Die. All of us in that theater--mostly old people, but not all--where whooping and cracking up. It's been so long since I've seen real wit in a film!
Second thing, I met with my Jane Austen group yesterday afternoon, to go see "Love and Friendship" which was showing two miles from here. What a delightful film! They really did a good job with a somewhat problematical book; Austen wrote three epistolary novels when she was young, and turned two of them into Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility but she never published Lady Susan--which both shows flashes of her genius, and is problematical.
But this writer captured the spirit of the book, and this is the time when such a book/film could be enjoyed, as it breaks the rule of nineteenth century novels that Bad Women Must Always Die. All of us in that theater--mostly old people, but not all--where whooping and cracking up. It's been so long since I've seen real wit in a film!