Netflix’s PRIDE & PREJUDICE Has A Trailer

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Netflix’s PRIDE & PREJUDICE Has A Trailer and Get Ready for Another JANE EYRE

Netflix’s Pride & Prejudice caught a bit of a lucky break. Austen never really goes out of style, but the box office success of Wuthering Heights might have people more primed than usual to take on a historical romance. This production was already in the offing of course, but Hollywood didn’t waste any time, queuing up a new adaptation of the work of another Bronté,

Rachel Reid Says Parkinsons Symptoms Worsening, Delaying HEATED RIVALRY Installment

In an Instagram post, Rachel Reid shared that her worsening Parkinson’s symptoms are forcing her to delay the release of the next book in her Unrivaled series (of which Heated Rivalry is a part). It was scheduled to come out this fall, but has now been pushed to June 2027: “When good things happen, sometimes the universe hands you some worse stuff to balance it out and for me that’s been that my Parkinson’s symptoms have gotten a bit worse and it’s made it difficult physically to write,” Reid said.

A Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section

Apparently hundreds of people gather to mourn the loss of The Washington Post Book World over the weekend, with many luminaries from the past and present of the paper (Bob Woodward, Marty Baron, and others) on hand. Unusually, there was a question and answer session, as reported by The New York Times: “Saturday’s event was the rare funeral with a question-and-answer session at the end. One attendee asked how to engage in responsible capitalism, while another invoked the Greek philosopher Heraclitus when wondering how technological developments might affect the future of writing.” I can’t decide if this is funny, sad, beautiful, or all three.

1984 by George Orwell

Is 1984 the most influential novel of the 20th century? On the most recent episode of Zero to Well-Read, we go back to the future to explore the landmark dystopian novel that gave us Big Brother, doublethink, the memory hole, and 2 + 2 = 5. They dig into Orwell’s vision of totalitarian power, the relationship between language and thought, asking not just why 1984 endures, but what it actually gets right (and wrong) about how control works.