Curtis Sittenfeld's Pride and Prejudice Retelling Is Possibly Coming to TV
Here is some truly excellent news for some very specific people: Curtis Sittenfeld’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation Eligible is getting a pilot.
Eligible, a Modern Pride and Prejudice Where Your Ideal Suitor Is a Lead on a Dating Show
At a certain point, you’d think there was enough Jane Austen out there, what with the books she wrote, the many movie adaptations of said books, the museum exhibitions, the clothing lines, the festivals, the souvenirs, and the quasi-spinoff novels like Austenland and The Jane Austen Book Club (which were speedily…
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Curtis Sittenfeld: "For naming characters, I love the Social Security Administration's most popular baby names site." [New York Times]
Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Why Playing Cupid's A Bad Idea
Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld's Salon essay on disastrous matchmaking got us thinking about the perils of being a Yenta.
What Will Laura Bush Reveal In Her Memoir?
Laura Bush, perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the current lame duck White House, confirmed today that she may be shopping a book proposal. "I've been talking to some publishers, but nothing has happened yet - just a few visits," she says. Bush is notoriously press shy. She has said in the past that she finds giving…
This Week We Discovered You Can't Spell Palin Without PAIN
Social Awkwardness, Long Odds & Sarah Palin: A Chat With Curtis Sittenfeld
Most people who are famous — and I don't mean the kind of famous where a few people recognize you at the supermarket, I mean people who are known worldwide — are famous because they have sought the spotlight like particularly aggressive moths. But what about those mostly innocent bystanders who become famous not by…
Prep's Curtis Sittenfeld wrote this novel about how she imagined Laura Bush's life (it involves abortion and fucking dykes too!) and some of my friends have copies but they are bad friends because they lent them to other non-blogging friends before they lent them to me. Curtis has long had a girlcrush on Laura Bush,…
The Chick Lit Cat Fight Chronicles.... Might Be A Witty Title For A Pink Book, No?
Meet author Katherine Taylor. (Her narrator is called "Kath," too!) She never thought she was pretty, always thought she looked like a boy. (What is up with these pretty girls — ahem, ScarJo — saying they think they look like boys? Anyway, Kath thinks she writes as well as any boy, which is why she is the latest…
