Charlie Parker meets Lovecraft

John Sutherland publishes in The Telegraph an article full of praise for Jasper Fforde that includes the now famous Pro-Caths Guerrilla from the First Among Sequels's Bookworld:

In Ffordeworld, novels attack one another, in bitter border disputes. One of the running gags in First Among Sequels is a gang of Danverclones, on the loose from Rebecca, who go round arsonising other novels, trying to burn down their houses. The Pro-Caths, another criminal crew, are constantly mounting guerrilla-style attacks to get Wuthering Heights rewritten so as to give Cathy Earnshaw a better deal.

The Columbus Dispatch reviews the recent release of Genesis: 1976-1982 which includes 1977 Wind and Wuthering:

Wind & Wuthering (1977): In a year in which Boogie Nights made the Billboard top 10, it took a band of real men to conceive of, record and release an album inspired by a 19th-century novel.
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights moved Collins and the gang to record the moody concept album of songs with imagery that strives to be as vivid as Bronte's prose.
Blood on the Rooftops holds the album together -- an album that ends with . . . In That Quiet Earth, words from the last sentence of the book. (The alternative choice for the title of the final song wasn't I'll Crush His Ribs Like a Rotten Hazelnut, which Heathcliff says of Edgar, but should have been, don't you think?) (Aaron Beck)

CHUD discovers a new Brontëite: John Connolly author of the Charlie Parker series of books.

The supernatural in his world definitely seems real, what is in doubt are the bthings that Parker sees. Why have an un-reliable narrator for a series character?

I love unreliable narrators. Among my favorite novels are Wuthering Heights and The Good Soldier, which both use unreliable narrators (in the case of Wuthering Heights, a series of them) to give them their power and depth. In the end, people are unreliable narrators. We all present a narrative of our lives to the world which has been edited and tinkered with, and which evolves over time. Why expect the narrator of a book to be any different? (Interview by Cameron Hughes)

The Sacramento Bee informs about an upcoming fundraising dinner with a Brontë twist:

Friends of the Pocket-Greenhaven Library, said Kathi Windheim, is "the first to have a friends group without a building." The library won't even break ground until spring, but the group has been raising money for the branch's book collection for three years now (...) Windheim is part of a trio that dresses as a team. This year, they're the Bronte sisters.

Not only this. Check the menu for the September 28 dinner:

Pocket Friends of the Library: “A Novel Idea III” Dinner.
Exciting literary themed entrees like Bronte Beef or Dickens Chicken are on the menu for adults, as well as Harry Potter Pizza meals for children.

The Monomania Diaries traces parallels between Jane Eyre and hard-to-find Frank Capra's 1931 film The Miracle Woman. Check it out. We love this sentence:

After all, Frank Capra - like Charlotte Brontë - had the gift of telling us ordinary stories in an extraordinary manner.

Did you know that H.P. Lovecraft wrote about Wuthering Heights? It was in The Fantasy Fan (September 1934 - Issue #13) and you can read about it here. EDIT: Check the comment below for more (thanks to Chris Perridas for the info)

Pines above Snow reviews Jenny Uglow's biography of Thomas Bewick, Nature's Engraver. Oh, to be in England! posts some pictures of their recent visit to Haworth.

Categories: Brontëites, Haworth, In the News, Music, References, Wuthering Heights