From the Brontë Project to Wide Sargasso Sea, passing through some trivialities

Sunday news can be grouped into three categories.

Category one of pseudonews: Overcooked News.

A new mention of Jennifer Vandever's The Brontë Project. The New York Times includes the novel in its weekly Paperback Row.

We would like to let you know that we have finally read this book and have seen for ourselves how great it is. We have been encouraging everyone we know to get it!

Category two: Trivial mentions. Subtecategory: Innocuous.

The Telegraph publishes a funny article by Harry Ritchie, the writer of The Third Party, about plot structure, storylines, stealing ideas... the article somehow accomplishes to insert a Brontë reference:

And so my thoughts turned, quick as an oil-tanker, to other storylines from the past, from the impossibly undetected disguises in Shakespeare and the plotless and-then, and-then picaresque of Tom Jones, to the amateur-hour daftnesses of the Victorians. (Why does Cathy die so ludicrously early in Wuthering Heights? How come George Eliot's Daniel Deronda can embark on a 900-page quest for his identity when a glance inside his boxers could have told him he was Jewish?)

Still on category two: Trivial mentions. Subtecategory: Stupid.

AccessNorthGa.com publishes an interview with the new The Northeast Georgia History Center Executive Director, Steve Miller. There, he says:

"History lends itself to doing.""History is not Wuthering Heights, it's Indiana Jones; it's an action verb and its about doing, participating and discovery."

So, we guess Mr Miller thinks that Wuthering Heights is static, boring, tiring... he'll never be a Brontëite, he will never know all he's missing. Poor him.

Fortunately, we found more lucky people entering the third category: Brontëites. The Scotsman publishes an interview with Margaret Murphy, writer of Now You See Me.

What literary character would you like to meet?
Jane Eyre. Growing up in a strict Catholic household, she was probably the first woman, in fiction or fact, that I saw take control of her life.

And finally, the new version of Wide Sargasso Sea has finally got an imdb webpage, with no cast or crew information for the moment (if you are interested you can check this post of ours). To kill time until new information arrives, a few days ago Tattycoram sent us this trailer of the 1992 version.

Categories: In_the_News, Books, Brontëites, Movies-DVD-TV, Wide_Sargasso_Sea