Interview by Hannah Sophie Schiffner    Giacomo Calabria, writing under the pseudonym “Jacopo della Quercia,” is an award-winning educator, essayist, novelist, and taught as a scholar with Humanities New York across a decade.  His novels include License to Quill , “a James Bond-esque spy thriller starring William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe during history’s real life Gunpowder Plot,” and The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy , a “historical thriller” with

An interview with our NEPCA member and Jane Austen scholar Dr. Zsòfia Anna Tóth Interview by Hannah Sophie Schiffner What draws you to Jane Austen’s work?   I think Jane Austen managed to write about universal truths concerning life, existence as well as human nature in a way that makes all this accessible with a timeless appeal as well as in a transcultural manner. She is read and understood globally even today. Apparently, she was writing about only a handful of people who