Season 10, Episode 215 Austen is in the Air with guests A.H. Kim and Melodie Edwards
You can find this week’s Austen authors at their websites: www.ahkim.net/ and melodieedwards.com/. They are also on IG @ melodiewritesedwards and @ahkim.writer
Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died in 1817 but she remains a writer who has captured the minds and hearts of many readers. The themes she addressed in her time remain ones that are relevant today: the need to be an individual despite the binds of society’s rules, the complications of marriage, and the power and powerlessness that comes with changes in social class.
Our guests this week, AH Kim, and Melodie Edwards, both love Jane Austen and with such gusto that they wrote their own reimaginings of her novels. They talk about the potential pitfalls of their endeavors given how exacting many Austen fans are, as well as the things they wanted to ensure they kept from Austen versus the creative license they took to make their stories unique to their own experiences and modern times.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- Relative Strangers by A.H. Kim
2- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
3- Once Persuaded, Twice Shy by Melodie Edwards
4- Persuasion by Jane Austen
5- Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James
6- Jane and Edward by Melodie Edwards
7- A Good Family by A.H. Kim
8- Long Live by V. B. Lacey - A Book recommended by a fellow book lover Brianna Wright @bwrightsbookreviews
9- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
10- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
11- Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner
12- The Fetishist by Katherine Min
13- Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
14- The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
TV series mentioned:
1- Northern Exposure ( Amazon, 1990-1995)
2- The Reluctant Traveler (Apple +, 2023-present)
Movies mentioned-
1- Pride and Prejudice (1995) with Colin Firth
2- Sense and Sensibility (1995) with Emma Thompson
3- Persuasion (Netflix, 2022) with Dakota Johnson
4- Persuasion (2007, iTV) with Sally Hawkins
5- Persuasion (1995) with Ciarin Hinds
6- Emma (1996) with Gwyneth Paltrow
7- American Fiction (2023)