Portrait of the Artist as a Young Werewolf

Brian McGreevy wants to ruin your workday

"...What with the saturation of glittery-torsoed vampires and Jane Austen-chomping zombies in contemporary novels, readers can be forgiven..."

April 6, 2012 Books Feature by Sarah Smith

Team Spirit

The 2012 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...the groundwork for his award-winning adaptations of novels by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens (he also co-wrote the Oscar-nominated..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

How Parallelogramophonograph survived Scotland and became a better improv troupe

"...a shelf at the library: French Farce, Screwball Comedy, Jane Austen meets Raymond Chandler, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Villainy, and..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Up for 'Enchantment'

David Liss reads from his new historical fantasy tonight

"...Lord Byron, and Mary Crawford, a fictional character from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, for a supernatural adventure story set..."

Aug. 15, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: In Media Res

False starts, slow reads

"...Personality; every year or so I re-read one of Jane Austen's books, so the new 700-plus page annotated edition..."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

This Week's Waste of Time

Another 50 Independent Games Festival Entrants Get Played. Join the Fun.

"...one of only a few choices offered women in Jane Austen novels. I imagine that the ultimate goal is..."

Nov. 25, 2009 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Fun for the Whole Family

Traversing the Texas Book Festival

"...for Dan Brown, and they've resisted my overtures of Jane Austen.) I don't remember who turned whom onto Richard..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM

Homer, the epic poet of ancient Greece, invented the cinematic close-up

"...Meanwhile, in England, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Dickens were writing..."

April 24, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

You Got Me

"...game and E.M. Forster and sweet, glum Eeyore and Jane Austen and Archers of Loaf and Charles Mingus and..."

July 11, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Snuff

The shock of Snuff – about a record-breaking, 600-man sex-a-thon – is that the sexual content isn't that shocking at all

"...unless you've lead a Web-free life, reading nothing but Jane Austen and fellow novelists of manners by candlelight, Chuck..."

May 30, 2008 Books Review by Matthew Patin

Much Ado About Nothing

Austin Shakespeare's free production in Zilker Park provides affordable, above-average dinnertime amusement

"...of one of the famous dancing-bantering scenes from a Jane Austen novel, which is great in concept, but from..."

May 23, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

IBIZ Districts: Voting local with holiday dollars

Keep Austin weird by shopping locally

"...available from their online Web store) include Mozart and Jane Austen action figures ($8.95), sushi playing cards ($4.95), and..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Kind Hearts and Coronets

If comedy is a dish best served black, Kind Hearts and Coronets is beluga caviar marinated in its own ink.

"...as lashing as some sort of mad approximation of Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe. Revenge is glacial in..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...See page www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/austheir.html...."

Oct. 17, 2003 Column

Are Welcome to Their Opinion

"...those who know what they're talking about. See page www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/austheir.html...."

Oct. 8, 2003 Postmarks

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...first hundred pages of Atonement feel too much like Jane Austen, and too little like the dark, brooding author..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

Twenty Flight Rock

The Art of Bob Dylan; The Life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez-Fariña and Richard Fariña

"...superimpose Joan Baez and her sister Mimi on a Jane Austen landscape, recount the soap-operatic Joanie-Bobby romance, and address..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Surreal Science

Looking at three books -- Plague Time, Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy, and The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, Roger Gathman observes that for every advance in technology, nature counterbalances with new opportunities for disease.

"...Fanny Burney was a contemporary of Jane Austen. In her time, Burney was the more popular..."

March 2, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Shelby Hearon Reviewed

"...of affirmation, but the overall model here is more Jane Austen. Hearon's world is nuanced, subtle, surprisingly well-delineated, and..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

The High Life

Too-often regarded as dull compilations of dusty facts, biographies are rarely bestsellers, Amanda Eyre Ward writes. But Amanda Foreman's Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire reads like a racy novel, complete with enough rocky relationships, torrid trysts, and illegitimate childbirths to keep Jerry Springer in business for weeks.

"...stress. You imagine ladies playing cards like in a Jane Austen novel, very sedate, but in fact, they were..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Le Mariage

"...Johnson writes like a 20th-century Jane Austen, all rapt observation and wry comment. Close in..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Books Review by Anna Hanks

Chronicles

The Ninth Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...produced scholarly criticism on, among other topics, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, and Nancy Drew, some of which has actually..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Features Feature by Clay Smith

The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief

"...elegant essays and enlightening insights into such writers as Jane Austen, Gustav Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, and others. It is..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Review by Stacy Bush

How to Read and Why

"...Bloom imagines Shakespeare reading aloud from Lewis Carroll, or Jane Austen (his favorite) surviving to rival Shakespeare; he confesses..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Review by Craig Arnold

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...far removed from her world of Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen. The performances -- by Black, Wickerham, and Cameron..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 6. Emma by Jane Austen 7. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

"...her star be handsome, rich, and clever, but unlike Jane Austen's heroines, this one never encounters any internal conflict...."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Review by Stacy Bush

Writing About Humans

"...powerful (Rose Kennedy), and the literary (Anne Sexton and Jane Austen). Several of the panelists were what might be..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Arts Feature by Cari Marshall

Day Trips

"...visitors on a tour of England's literary sites from Jane Austen's manors to tracing the footsteps of Agatha Christi,..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Scanlines

"...perfect love for everyone but herself in this 1816 Jane Austen tale. Games of status are played while the..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Screens Feature

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