For the love of god, someone wake me if y’all find a summation of the findings of the Jane Austen’s Paper Trail by Naomi Joseph podcast, and not just a review of the podcast, which is itself a sort of review couched in a dialogue between experts who (from a distance) seem content to preface or end each-and-every musing with “it’s a mystery, innit?”

For the record, I’ve read most of Jane Austen’s novels. It’s this modern meta-of-a-meta take on it all that’s got me cross-eyed and wondering why I should bother. Please stop hawking pod-casts in literary spaces.