Camp Austen : my life as an accidental Jane Austen superfan
Ted Scheinman's memoir of growing up with a mother who was a Jane Austen scholar and, as a graduate student in UNC Chapel Hill's English department, helping organize the university's first Jane Austen Summer Program. Chapters cover a shared inheritance, dressing the part, table talk, theatricals and the ball, and the book touches the Jane Austen Society of North America and the wider world of Austen fandom. First edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2018, 160 pages.
