Live from Pemberley: Eligible (with Curtis Sittenfeld)
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Curtis Sittenfeld is one of Vanessa's favorite authors and in 2016 she published her own take on Pride and Prejudice, Eligible. Eligible transposes Lizzy and company from 19th century England to modern-day Cincinnati, Ohio. In today's episode, we talk to Curtis about Eligible and the inspiration behind her new book, Romantic Comedy.
Join us in two weeks for our discussion of Bride and Prejudice with Bedatri Choudhury!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, we wanted to let you know that in partnership with the Fetzer Institute, |
| 0:05.8 | we have been able to offer some scholarships for two of our upcoming pilgrimages. |
| 0:11.3 | Our Duke by Default pilgrimage, we can offer a $1,500 scholarship and our Harry Potter |
| 0:16.6 | and the Prisoner of Azkaban pilgrimage, we can offer $1,000 scholarships. |
| 0:21.8 | To find out more, go to readingandwalkingwith.com, we can only do this while supplies last. |
| 0:28.2 | We have five spots available on each trip, I hope to see you there. |
| 0:33.1 | Go to readingandwalkingwith.com. |
| 0:43.3 | I love Curtis Sittenfeld. |
| 0:45.8 | I read Prep, her first novel, right when it came out in 2005, and I've read every single |
| 0:51.3 | one of her novels since. |
| 0:53.5 | So of course, I gobbled up eligible, a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, as soon |
| 0:59.3 | as it came out in 2016. |
| 1:02.1 | It was like she wrote it just for me. |
| 1:05.3 | Sittenfeld is an author obsessed with where the political and the personal meet. |
| 1:10.9 | My favorite of her novels is American Wife, a very loose imagining of the life of Laura |
| 1:16.7 | Bush. |
| 1:18.2 | She also wrote the brilliant Rotem, a novel that asks the question, what would Hillary |
| 1:23.4 | Clinton's life have been like and what would America be like if Hillary had said no |
| 1:29.7 | when Bill proposed? |
| 1:31.8 | In Sittenfeld's worldview, women's personal choices have huge impacts on the political |
| 1:36.9 | landscape. |
| 1:38.8 | It is not surprising that a retelling of Pride and Prejudice is another opportunity for |
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