Jane Austen, bell hooks, and a definition of love

Happy Thanksgiving. It’s a good day to talk about love, why we don't get enough of it, and what that has to do with Fanny Price.

Hello friends,

Let’s talk about love. Because now more than ever it’s a great time to take a page from the great cultural critic, author, and public intellectual bell hooks and to simply examine our definition of love and how it applies to our iconic stories.

And the way bell hooks defines love is so simple. It’s a definition that is illuminating and deva…