{"id":39726,"date":"2012-10-09T13:40:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=39726"},"modified":"2012-10-09T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T16:45:29","slug":"austen-takes-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/austen-takes-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Austen Takes Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/09JANE-jp1-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/09JANE-jp1-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"09JANE-jp1-articleLarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/09JANE-jp1-articleLarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/09JANE-jp1-articleLarge-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, seven hundred members of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasna.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Jane Austen Society of North America<\/a> congregated in Brooklyn for its inaugural meeting, a discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasna.org\/agms\/news-articles\/essays-ny-agm.html\" target=\"_blank\">sex, money, and power<\/a>. Anna Quindlen delivered the keynote. Cornel West addressed suffering. And, of course, bonnets were worn. \u201cThis is a place where people can let their Jane Austen freak flag fly,\u201d said one attendee. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/09\/books\/jane-austen-society-of-north-america-meets-in-brooklyn.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, seven hundred members of the Jane Austen Society of North America congregated in Brooklyn for its inaugural meeting, a discussion of sex, money, and power. Anna Quindlen delivered the keynote. Cornel West addressed suffering. 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