Some Brontë-related mentions to be found in the press today:
We are used to seeing books compared to some trend of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, but now the comparison is with not-being the Brontë sisters. This is how the
Dallas Morning News reviews
I Gave You My Love But You Sold It Online by Dixie Cash, that happens to be a pseudonym for a couple of half-sisters.
They're not the writing Brontë sisters. But then, Heathcliff never saddled up a cutting horse. And Jane Eyre never had her nails done in a West Texas beauty parlor.
Poet
Edward Hirsch's reading on
The University of North Carolina Greensboro is reviewed in
The Carolinian student paper. We suppose Mr. Hirsch explained
this anecdote:
I've written an entire book about my favorite poems. It's called How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. I write about many of the poems I care about most deeply. I explain, for example, my first encounter with Emily Bronte's "Spellbound" when I was eight-years-old (I somehow imagined that my grandfather must have written it!)
Finally, we discover
an unexpected Brontëite, John Iverdale, the popular BBC Sports presenter:
And what is your favourite book of all time?
Wuthering Heights.
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