Bleeding a radiator with Emily Brontë

Novelist Victoria Hislop is interviewed by The Independent and renews her Brontëiteness:

A book that changed me ... Wuthering Heights. It's full of literary depth – but intensely exciting too. It woke me up. (Charlotte Philby)

But that's not all about Wuthering Heights for today. On a positive note, both the Coventry Telegraph and Huliq News seem to be looking forward to welcoming Tamasha's Wuthering Heights at the Belgrade Theatre (Coventry) where it will stay from June 9 to June 13.

On a negative note, The Times looks at 'what Times readers loved and loathed over the year'. And...

Serena Trowbridge [...], but then nominates Wuthering Heights at the same theatre [Birmingham Rep] as one of her Worsts of 2008. “Antony Byrne's Heathcliff would be more at home managing a PC World,” she writes, witheringly. (Richard Morrison)

The Australian (and Le Figaro and Les Échos) reviews Sartre's Sink; The Great Writers Complete Book of DIY by Mark Crick and brings up its Emily Brontë connection:

For instance, there is Bleeding a Radiator with Emily Bronte, accompanied by a painting after van Gogh. There is Unblocking a Sink with Jean-Paul Sartre, and sketches after Leonardo da Vinci. Other authors represented include Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Poe, Goethe and Beckett. The artists include Picasso, Magritte and Turner. (Roy Williams)

The blogosphere brings us a rare post about Glyn Hughes’ Brontë by A Year of ReReading. And two other things that are Twilight-related. Bella's Bookshelf writes about the connections between Wuthering Heights and Stephenie Meyer's series, and So Many Books... So Little Time posts about a reading challenge called The Twilight Twist, where readers 'read a selection of 3 of the classic novels that inspired the Twilight Saga. There's Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte or A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare.'

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Theatre, Wuthering Heights