Sunday Brontëites

We have already talked about Alice Hoffman here on BrontëBlog, but while doing the promotional interviews on her new work, Skylight Confessions, her love for Wuthering Heights can't be hidden. But it's good to read how she elaborates on it.

"When I grew up, my favorite books were about magic," she said. "What you read as a child hugely influences you as a reader, as a writer, as a person. For me, magic is part of the whole literary tradition, whether it's fairy tales or folk tales or Wuthering Heights," which is really kind of a ghost story. Magic's all a part of the fabric of literature, and that's how I really see it." (Hoffman listed the Emily Bronte novel as her No. 1 top book in a recent poll of writers, with "Grimms' Fairy Tales" as No. 10.) (Bob Hoover in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Musician Kate Rusby talks to the Scotsman and reveals that she and Alice Hoffman would find at least on subject to talk about.h

The book you've read more than once? The book I have read most is Wuthering Heights. I am a big fan of a good story, that's why I adore folk songs, full of good stories. Every now and again I go back to it and revel in its dark creaky rooms and windswept moors. "A reight good yarn," as we say down here.

And now for something you couldn't expect. Well, at least we didn't. The Guardian talks about the relaunch of Penthouse.

Guccione would not have approved: his Penthouse was an almost completely sports-free zone and football was considered strictly for plebs. But he was genuinely keen on culture - there were great wodges of pretentious arts coverage front and back, largely written by me - whereas the 'Department of Culture' in the new incarnation consists solely of a two-page interview with my old friend Howard Marks who confides that he is too busy to read books these days, but remembers enjoying Anna Karenina and Jane Eyre in prison. (Lynn Barber)

Some female Brontëites might now get a chance to bring their boyfriends/husbands over to their (our) side ;)

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights