Risk factors

I’ve had people express confusion or wonder at how seemingly disparate things come together in my head, but sometimes I even have to question it myself. Somehow Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley film version), The Social...

Great expectations & surprises

The E! Channel cuts off the ending to its “Movies We Love” presentation of Pride and Prejudice. The NCAA men’s basketball final produces some surprising headlines. The Oprah Winfrey Show delights with interviews of Tina Fey, Steve Carell and Tracy...

Pride and Prejudice

Many years ago, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was among my many books. I had picked it up several times, only to put it down because it didn’t hold my interest. After a mention of it in one of my favorite Anna Quindlen columns in The New York Times in...