Colin Firth will edit your manuscript now
Though Hollywood regularly makes movies about writers, with regularly dicey results, it rarely turns its gaze to editors. Which is fair enough: since most movies about writers could safely be… Read more »
Stop all the clocks: which poems make grown men cry?
The title of a new poetry anthology, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, is very silly. I know one man who cried reading One Day, another who blubbered over Beckett… Read more »
Sure, why wouldn’t there be a Jane Austen RPG that uses gossip as a weapon?
Today we introduce you to Ever Jane, an RPG from Developer 3 Turn Productions which stars characters from Jane Austen’s novels who are out to destroy one another. Or at… Read more »
Breaking: people are overly invested in fictional characters
Helen Fielding, author of the beloved Bridget Jones’s Diary and the more-or-less-tolerated Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, released an excerpt from her third Jones book this weekend, in the… Read more »
Twelve-foot Mr Darcy of your dreams/nightmares
The Independent released a short video about the twelve-foot tall Mr Darcy sculpture in London’s Hyde Park, including reactions from passersby and speculation about the swans’ feelings toward their new… Read more »