{"id":61986,"date":"2013-11-01T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61986"},"modified":"2013-11-01T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:47:38","slug":"modern-austen-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/modern-austen-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Austen, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ausfotojlarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ausfotojlarge.jpg\" alt=\"ausfotojlarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"608\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61987\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Informality, sex, reticence, and other challenges of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/nov\/01\/modernising-jane-austen-traps-to-avoid\" target=\"_blank\">modernizing Austen<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Morrissey\u2019s autobiography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-cheer-up-morrissey-fans-in-america-his-memoir-is-coming-dec-3-20131029,0,6609231.story#axzz2jOkbfbOn\" target=\"_blank\">crosses the pond <\/a>December 3.<\/li>\n<li>Starting today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2013\/10\/28\/amazon-begin-collecting-massachusetts-sales-tax-friday\/acyUMexp4ChUk2I6JtdJyI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com will start collecting sales tax<\/a> in Massachusetts and Connecticut. \u201cThis so, so, so overdue,\u201d the manager of a Brookline bookstore tells the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Amazon.com! The behemoth is launching a digital literary magazine, <em>Day One<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/amazon-launches-literary-magazine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Says<\/a> Daphne Durham, publisher of the adult trade and children\u2019s group, \u201cLiterary journals have long been an important part of giving a voice and a platform to new and undiscovered authors \u2026 We are trying to add to that tradition in a digital age.\u201d Phew, glad someone\u2019s on that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Informality, sex, reticence, and other challenges of modernizing Austen. Morrissey\u2019s autobiography crosses the pond December 3. Starting today, Amazon.com will start collecting sales tax in Massachusetts and Connecticut. \u201cThis so, so, so overdue,\u201d the manager of a Brookline bookstore tells the Boston Globe. Speaking of Amazon.com! The behemoth is launching a digital literary magazine, Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[4223,300,11030],"class_list":["post-61986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-amazon-com","tag-jane-austen","tag-morrissey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Modern Austen, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 1, 2013 \u2013 Informality, sex, reticence, and other challenges of modernizing Austen. Morrissey\u2019s autobiography crosses the pond December 3. 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