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‘Public Access Afterworld’ and Jane Schoenbrun’s Toxic, Intoxicating Screens

Jane Schoenbrun is fascinated by screens. Whether it be creepypasta rabbit holes in their debut feature We Are All Going to the World’s Fair, the entrancing nostalgia of teenage dramas inI Saw the TV Glow, or the erotic escape of slashers in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, each of their films has explored…

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Literary Center »How Jane Austen blew a hole through the romance genre she created

Jane Austen’s most dramatic moments emmaAnd, arguably, in his entire oeuvre, there is nothing to do with romance. After all, Emma Woodhouse’s reaction to George Knightley’s proposal occupies little space. The scene in the gardens outside Hartfield becomes hilarious when Knightley talks to Emma about her desperate, unquenchable longing, and then Austin writes “What did

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Why ‘Our Moon’ Author Jane Yolen Was So Beloved: NPR

Jane Yolen in 1989. Denver Post/AP hide caption toggle caption Denver Post/AP Author Jane Yolen published an astonishing number of books in her lifetime – more than 450. He died last week at his home in Hatfield, Mass., at the age of 87. Her residence there marked the beginning of a career in which Yolen

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