The Latest
- Here Comes the Jane Again
A Jane Austen Education came out in paperback April 24. Buy buttons below; more info here; tour events as follows:
June 10, 1:30 PM: Printers Row Lit Fest (Center Stage), Chicago IL, in discussion with Karen Doornebos and Elisabeth Lenckos
June 11, 7:00 PM: Highland Park Public Library, Highland Park IL
June 12, 7:00 PM: Left Bank Books, St. Louis MO
Oct. 6, 8:30 PM: Jane Austen Society of North America, Annual General Meeting, Brooklyn NY
"sharp, endearingly self-effacing…a profound truth lies embedded in Deresiewicz’s witty account of his early animosity…a shrewd critic of Austen’s work."
--New York Times Book Review
"I must curb myself from gushing for fear of losing my credibility....How William Deresiewicz came to evolve into an enlightened Y-chromosome is one heck of a great story....Part literary criticism, part personal memoir and a lot of Austen doctrine, his prose is open, engaging and very humorous....We love this book, and not just because it has the best cover we have seen in years...We were truly agog and enchanted with every word."
--Austenprose.com
"Seeing a favorite critic expound at length on a favorite author is an undersung form of literary pleasure--as close as you can get to reading two great writers at the same time...Like Austen, Deresiewicz is lucid, principled and knows how to think as well as how to feel, without ever sacrificing one to the other...a delightful and enlightening book..."
--Salon
"I finished the book with two strong impulses: One, to immediately reread everything Jane Austen wrote, with Deresiewicz's book at my side, and two, to invite Deresiewicz over for more Austen talk."
--Associated Press
An essay-review on Kurt Vonnegut, from the June 4 edition of The Nation.
An essay on the morality of capitalism (or lack thereof), from the May 13 edition of the New York Times Sunday Review.
- Excellent News
I signed a contract at the beginning of May for my next book, the one on elite higher education that I've been thinking about and writing bits and pieces of as essays and addresses for the past four years. It will be published by The Free Press, probably in 2014. The working title is Excellent Sheep, though that is likely to change.
The new All Points post, 5/21.
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