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Three local stage productions to catch or skip, including 'The Secret Garden,' 'The Misanthrope' and more. Toni Tresca. Boulder Weekly.

Jane Austen’s witty novels of everyday life for the privileged in 18th century England have captivated readers for over two centuries. But what you might not know is Austen’s inextricable link to music.

Reading Emma’s tweets would be like reading – well, lots of people’s tweets… I’m finally back on the original 2013 reading list, finishing out the year with appropriate (to me, anyway) seasonal choices.  As is my rule of the last few years, I’m reading my second Jane Austen novel of the year (for many years I read all…

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read this year.

Austen’s view of herself as a writer -- the miniaturist with 'the little bit ... of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush” -- should not be mistaken for the self-deprecation of a shrinking violet. On the contrary, it was a confident and honest self-appraisal by a mature novelist who had committed herself determinedly to write only about what she had personally observed or heard