Jane Austen did not die in 1817. Her head and neck were miraculously preserved at a Cryonics facility in Zurich, Switzerland (formerly Swisserland). Recently discovered (September 10, 2010), the famed authoress has been revived and has returned to reside in her beloved England and at last begun a new novel, entitled Regency Scenes of Dissipation and Vice. However, the burning literary question is can she finish her novel when her tranquility, her civility, and even her very life are threatened by the contemporary dangers surrounding her at rented Austen House. These include Hans-Axl, her neo-Nazi care-giver, the Sharia-loving fundamentalists next door, blatant libertines everywhere, the filthy paparazzi hounding Miss Austen, and worse. All she has to assist her are a butch lesbian amanuensis and a ninety-year-old American rare book dealer, and perhaps the Internet. Told in e-mails, this book contains a tale that combines both quaint Regency charm and a good deal of modern edge.
Author Biography
Saving Jane Austen (a comedie grotesque). In fiction, Daniel Curzon has published in The Kenyon Review, Descant, Christopher Street, The Oregon Review, Pannus Index, and many other magazines. His stories have been anthologized in Mae West Is Dead (Faber and Faber), Man of My Dreams (Chronicle Books), Aphrodisiac (Coward-McCann), and several other collections. His books include the landmark Something You Do in the Dark (G.P. Putnam and Lancer Books), The World Can Break Your Heart (Knights Press), Curzon in Love (Knights Press), Only the Good Parts and Not Necessarily Nice: Stories. Among the Carnivores (Ashley), Human Warmth and Other Stories - Donald Allen, Editor (Grey Fox Press) And of course The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette. Now published by Wisehouse of Sweden. Daniel Curzon has also written plays on a variety of subjects: He was awarded the 1999 National New Play Contest Award for Godot Arrives by the Southwest Theatre Association. Produced by Apathy Is Lethal, Orlando Fringe, 2008, Cathaayatra, New Delhi, 2009. Translated into German, Klaus Heindl Publishers, 2009. Also Finalist for the 2003 National New Play Contest for Stuck. "Batperson and Robbie: Cute Meat," produced by F.A.C.T. at Joria Stage, NYC, September, 2010. "Peni: A Post-Feminist Morality Play," staged by Gamaliel Valle, Master's Directing Class, the New School for Drama, NYC, 2010.
