Two new Brontëites appear in the press today:
The
Franz Ferdinand band confess their Brontëite-ness in
this article that reports their appearance in the Edinburgh Book Festival:
Alex Kapranos, the band's lead singer, and Nick McCarthy, his fellow songwriter and guitarist, revealed their literary inspirations for a career that has so far netted six million album sales, the Mercury Music Prize and numerous other awards. (...)
Kapranos said he wanted to appear at the book festival because he believed song lyrics were an underrated part of literature. "I have always felt that songwriting and lyrics were seen as the poorer cousins of the literature world, but that's not necessarily the case," he said. (...)
The duo revealed an extensive list of books which had inspired them and their peers. Kapranos said: "If you are ever stuck for inspiration, just read a book." (...) Martin Amis's London Fields, a prime inspiration for Parklife by Blur, made their list, as did Wuthering Heights - by Emily Bronte, rather than Kate Bush.
In a quite different style, Filipino singer José Mari Chan also highlights Wuthering Heights as one of his top-10 favourite movies. We don't know which version, though.
And maybe we can create a new category of anti-Brontëites where we can include the sports editor of the Indiana Statesman who is currently reading James Tully's The Crimes of Charlotte Brontë:
I highly recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys a good murder plot with all the elements of love, suspense and deception entwined. It put some questions in my mind that I had never thought about, such as, "Was there a cold-blooded murderer at the heart of the Bronte family?" and "How did the sheltered daughters of a pastor know so much about love and death?" And last, but certainly not least, "Who really wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?"
Oh, well... here we go again.
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