 Welcome, Devani. Welcome to Arizona State University. Welcome, Whit. Here we are. Hey, to be welcomed by you is the greatest treat, but we should be the ones welcoming you, of course. So, I'm hoping that you're going to be willing to talk with me about how you first came to Jane Austen. Well, it's an embarrassing story. I was at college, and I was very depressed, and I was about to run off to Cuernavaca, Mexico to learn Spanish, to take a semester off, and in my room at Harvard, someone had a copy of Northanger Abbey or someone gave it to me, or somehow I got Northanger Abbey, which is one of the worst... I know I think it's the worst Jane Austen to start with, because I was 18, 19, and I never read a Gothic novel, and Northanger Abbey, for those who don't know it, is largely made up of her parroting the Gothic novel genre of those years, so it was probably written at the very end of the 1790s by her early 1800s, and she's being fun of the sort of novels that Mrs. Radcliffe wrote, you know, Castles and Danger and Damsels and Distress, and fantastic things happening. I guess it's sort of the beginning of romanticism, in a way, and she was never romantic, and so she was making fun of that in a kind of very young way, and I thought it was terrible. I had no idea what she was making fun of, and I just thought it was lame, it was like a Jerry Lewis movie or something, although later we get to like those. So I told everyone that Jane Austen was terrible and overrated, and I hated her, and then fortunately after college, I got into more serious reading. I had a sister and a brother-in-law who were very serious reading English literature, and I think my sister recommended Sense and Sensibility, or I read that and liked it, and I think that I think is the best introductory Jane Austen for most people, and then I read Pride and Pride, just love that, and I read them all, love them all, and then I went back many years later, over 25 years later, I went back to Reconsider when North Angrabbi, which is very fortunate, because in reading North Angrabbi first, I liked it because in publishing, I read Gothic novels, I worked for the editor of Victoria Holt novels, I learned what Gothic novels were, so I knew what she was thinking of. I also really appreciated the sort of Jane Austen romantic comedy, there's a bit of that in North Angrabbi, but really the discovery for me were the fragments and unpublished Jane Austen manuscripts included in this edition, and so the first thing after North Angrabbi was Lady Susan, and that really opened my eyes to something, because I like Jane Austen very much, and Jane Austen always has a coolly, humorous regard towards life, but in Lady Susan she was particularly funny, particularly unrestrained, and so I started thinking of that as a possible film.