Fire Island Wants You to Rethink the Rom-Com

When Joel Kim Booster took his first ferry to Fire Island, the 32-mile barrier island that lies off the south shore of New York’s Long Island, the rising comedian brought a copy of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with him to read on the beach. As he reexamined the storied courtship of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Booster discovered that he could map Austen’s incisive observations about class and status in 19th-century English society onto his own experiences as a gay Asian man in the 21st century, especially in a place like Fire Island, which can be, as he puts… Read Full Article