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The soundtrack for Joe Wright’s film adaptation of the Austen novel has long been a hit. At a 20th-anniversary ball, people ...
INTERVIEW: French writer Laura Piani tells IndieWire how she used her directorial debut as a modern take on Austen's smart ...
In Laura Piani's knowing comedy, a headbound bookshop clerk finds herself not ruined by the author but charmed by the ...
As part of the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Hannah French explores Austen's musical capabilities, tastes, and some of the music familiar to her. Show more As part ...
Laura Piani’s ode to a beloved author delivers on its promise of gentility, gracious settings and mostly frictionless romance ...
A literary festival is holding a special event to mark 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen. The Stratford Literary Festival will host the "By a Lady: A Celebration of the Wit of Jane Austen" at ...
A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...
“Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that virtually ... to work or romance – her second marriage was to her kids’ music teacher, who was foreign, “lower class” and probably a smoke ...
The 18th-century gift that keeps on giving—to biographers, academics, filmmakers, TV producers and, oh yes, readers—Jane Austen has an audience that snaps to attention at the suggestion that ...