The Master of All Writing

Saturday newsround:

Author Sandy Lender is interviewed on Author Alley:

My advice for a budding writer? Holy cow. The memorable-scene thing is a good one, but, I always harp on dialogue. I'm a proponent for letting the characters tell a story, and I get that from the master of all writing, Charlotte Bronte. If you want to learn how to write clever and masterful dialogue, read Jane Eyre, Villette, The Professor, and Shirley. Her juvenilia isn't as well-developed (obviously), but the novels have excellent examples of how to let the characters show you what actions are taking place without the narrator spelling it out.

The New York Times finds weird connections between the Peter Braunstein's case and Wuthering Heights (!):

IT’S a long way from Emily Brontë to Lauren Weisberger, and even further, perhaps, to Peter Braunstein, the former media columnist for Women’s Wear Daily. Or is it? (Anemona Hartocollis)

Yeah. Whatever. Wuthering Heights is used again in this review of Mylo's last CD Destroy Rock'n'Roll:

Listening to Destroy Rock ’n’ Roll, the new CD from Scotlands’ Mylo, is a bit like reading Wuthering Heights. Sure, it is a good piece of work, but at the same time, it’s painful to get through it. (John Kujawski)

At least, this mention was well used.

Playback:stl reviews Kate Bush: Under Review, a recent DVD edited by Sexy Intelligence/MVD:

It’s not surprising to hear, for example, that she was headstrong from the start, when she overruled her label (at 19 years old, no less) and insisted her first single be, not “The Man with the Child in His Eyes,” but “Wuthering Heights,” a bizarre and complicated song that was inspired by the Emily Brontë novel—and became the first British No. 1 single written by a British woman. (Jeffrey Ricker)

Finally, some blogosphere entries: Streams of Consciousness publishes a quite interesting post about Wuthering Heights; A Random Stranger seems to be worried about Grace Poole's qualifications and A World Incalculable is very disappointed with the last adaptation of Jane Eyre.

Categories: Brontëites, In the News, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights