She’s putting in these ingredients-of humor and romance and class commentary-that are in all her novels. It’s almost like a recipe: You can make the same recipe more than once and it turns out better at different times. But somehow the way it all comes together in Pride and Prejudice is extra satisfying. Her books are pretty similar in terms of their themes and, to some extent, their characters. Why does the book feel like such a homecoming? I had an opportunity to consider that. I feel that way about Pride and Prejudice. I respect and admire the others, but Pride and Prejudice is a novel that I almost feel like I’ve climbed inside, as a reader. Were there other Austen books you would have preferred to adapt? I would not have wanted to do a different novel. It’s taking something real and then making it my own. That book borrows the architecture of a real person’s life, and this book borrows the architecture of another novel. My friends said, “It’s kind of what you did with American Wife,” which is loosely based on the life of Laura Bush. But before I did, I thought, Well, I’ll reread Pride over Christmas and I’ll see if this is something I could do. When The Austen Project approached you in 2011 about doing this novel, did you consider saying no? I had the impulse to say no. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair, and on public radio's This American Life.Sittenfeld and I discussed that question, why she thinks The Bachelor is brilliant, how she handled the name Fitzwilliam, and more. In addition, her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories, for which she has also been the guest editor.
Her books have been translated into thirty languages. Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I'll Say It.
Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair, and on public radio's This American Life.
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