THE MAKING OF JANE AUSTEN, BY DEVONEY LOOSER
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Devoney Looser on CNN
with Zain Asher (Quest Means Business) and Rosemary Church
Radio Interviews on Austen with Looser
Selected Reviews of The Making of Jane Austen
July '17 Essays/Interviews on Austen by Devoney Looser
TELEVISION AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS
CNN, with Zain Asher (Quest Means Business) (18 July 2017)
CNN, with Rosemary Church (19 July 2017)
ANU TV, with Will Christie (17 July 2017)

RADIO INTERVIEWS
Talking Books with Susan Cahill (NewsTalk, Ireland) (26 Feb 2018)
Books and Arts, ABC Radio National (18 July 2017)
Genevieve Jacobs, ABC-Canberra (17 July 2017)
Write On, with Barbie Robinson, ArtSound FM, Canberra (19 July 2017)
Saturday Morning with Kim Hill (Radio New Zealand) (18 Feb 2017)
TLS Podcast, with Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi (18 Jan 2017)
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REVIEWS OF THE MAKING OF JANE AUSTEN
Reviews and mentions of The Making of Jane Austen appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Vox, El Pais, Literary Review, Foreword Reviews, Times Higher Education, and The TLS. 

And as if that weren't good fortune enough, the book was also named to several lists: Real Simple's 7 Books to Commemorate the Life of Jane Austen, Bustle's 13 New Nonfiction Books by Women that Will Nourish Your Brain All Summer Long, and Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books (Nonfiction) and Top 10 Forthcoming Titles in Literary Criticism.

PRINT ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS
I published essays on Austen for her July 2017 bicentenary
  • New York Times op-ed ("Jane Austen Wasn't Shy")
  • Salon ("Fifty Shades of Mr. Darcy")
  • The Atlantic ("Queering the Work of Jane Austen is Nothing New")
  • Fivebooks.com ("The Alternative Jane Austen")
  • PBS News Hour ("Five Jane Austen Books to Read")
  • The Big Issue (North) ("Adapt and Adaptability")
  • I was part of a TLS feature, with other writers and thinkers, on "What Does Jane Austen Mean to You?" It's included in their commemorative book on Jane Austen.
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What would Jane Austen have made of all of this? We're all just blindly guessing! But I can tell you exactly what I made of it. It was incredible, moving, and far more fun than mournful, To my mind, that's just as it should be. 

Is  It  right  for  your  book  club?

Yes, definitely! The paperback edition now includes a brief reader's guide with discussion questions. I'd love to hear from you if you're considering choosing it.

This book works best in clubs familiar with Austen's fiction OR its film adaptations. (You could read or watch Pride and Prejudice and then choose this book.)

Janeite  Fun  from
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