Jane Austen at the Morgan

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A brief notice of the Jane Austen show at the Morgan Library by Cathleen Schine in the New York Review of Books blog. A few nice illustrations.

NYRblog - Austenolatry - The New York Review of Books

Of course we think we know a writer through that writer’s works: reading a novel is like a whispered conversation. And of course, simultaneously, we know that we don’t know the real writer at all. In the case of Jane Austen, whose relatives began protecting the myth very quickly after her death and even before it, we never will.

Neil Gaiman’s fantasies : The New Yorker

An interesting interview and profile on the comic book writer-turned fiction/fantasy writer, Neil Gaiman.

Neil Gaiman’s fantasies : The New Yorker

The New Yorker piece doesn't talk much about his Sandman series with DC in the 1990s, but the series did change a small segment of the comic book market, to one without super heroes and with more literary themes. Gaiman also had the clout with DC to kill his hero and end the series, even if there were some (unfortunate) spin-offs.