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Selected articles and interviews (for more pieces, click on the title of the book on the menu bar above):
USA Today
"She's almost eerily contemporary despite the bonnets, the balls and the carriages, because she's so keen and hilarious an observer of human nature," says author Laurie Viera Rigler. "To me, it's as if she's a modern-day psychotherapist who time-traveled back to the Regency period and writes a novel about everyone who spent time on her couch."
Full Article | Full Article at USA Today
The Times of London
"Laurie Viera Rigler’s Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict leads the field"
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USA Today
"Laurie Viera Rigler... says fans never tire of new interpretations. 'Jane Austen wrote just six books, and they want more, more, more.'"
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Macleans
"Being a woman, especially a single woman in the contemporary world can be quite confusing," says Viera Rigler, author of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. "There are no rules. Who's supposed to pay? What do sex and dating and monogamy mean? Looking back and putting our own modern nostalgic construction on Jane Austen's world, the rules were very clear, and I think people long for that."
Full Article | Full Article at Macleans
San Gabriel Valley Newspapers
How do relationships compare then and now?
"I love the freedom that I have as a woman today, but I think that Jane Austen was also lobbying very heavily for that freedom herself in her books. She was a big advocate in her novels and in her own personal life of marrying for love, but at the same time she was a practical woman and she understood that people have to have something to live on."
Full Article | Full Article at San Gabriel Valley Newspapers
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“I found out that not knowing is the best place for me to be. If you can embrace not knowing in a playful manner wondrous, magical things can happen.”