Six Degrees of Separation: Authors' Edition
Did you know that only two degrees separate Jane Austen from James "A Million Little Pieces faux-memoir" Frey?
Frey's formerly-endorsed-by-Oprah memoir was picked up in the UK by publisher John Murray, the same publisher who, about 200 years earlier, published Austen's last four novels.
To bring things full circle, John Murray was bought by a larger publisher, Hodder Headline. Check out Headline's newest covers for Jane Austen's novels (they're in the box on the right). Candy-coloured covers reminiscent of chick-lit does not a happy Austen scholar make.
1 comment:
yeah, I saw those in the shops! Made me do a double take. They look like the Confessions of a Shopaholic covers. Horrid.
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