Ray Bradbury loves Wuthering Heights covers

Nylon Magazine talks about the new covers designed by Ruben Toledo for the Penguin Classics DeLuxe Editions. Wuthering Heights (on the right) is scheduled for next August 25:

Pride and Prejudice is a book that needs no selling—the story of love, life, and first impressions is just as good today as when Jane Austen first wrote it. Same goes for Emily Bronte’s epic Wuthering Heights and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s damning The Scarlet Letter.
But if we were to judge a book by its cover, we’d argue that these classic reads have never looked better, thanks to the creative vision of Ruben Toledo. The artist is behind the three Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, illustrating the front flaps of each. While his surreal take on the Yorkshire moors or his Technicolor vision of Hester Prynne might not change the actual details of the plot, they certainly add a stylish edge to book club mainstays.
The series gets its official release on August 25, but they’re available now for pre-order. Which means you have enough time to check out his work at the exhibit Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of Art and FashionIsabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside out (on view at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City through September 26) and watch the entire BBC version of Pride and Prejudice beforehand. (Rebecca Willa Davis)

Another article about Salinger's veto to a sequel of The Catcher of the Rye which mentions Wide Sargasso Sea. On Real Clear Politics:

Borrowing is an essential part of the creation of culture. If we eliminated all derivative works, we would lose, among other things, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (based on a story by an Italian writer), and Jean Rhys's acclaimed novel "Wide Sargasso Sea," the story of Mr. Rochester's mad wife from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." (Cathy Young)

Intelligent Enterprise finds Brontë references in a very improbable source: Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis by Bo Pang and Lillian Lee.

It cites 332 references, mostly to technical literature, but it also presents the business case for sentiment analysis and firmly roots discussions in real-world examples, from movie reviews to quotations from literary sources such as novelist Charlotte Brontë. You may find the opening chapters, "The Demand for Information on Opinions and Sentiment" and "Applications," helpful, even if you don't read further into the monograph, which goes deep into the technology. (Seth Grimes)

Chris Power in The Guardian's Book Blog analyses one of the current big mysteries: the algorithms behind book recommendations.

Yesterday morning a friend of mine – let's call her Hannah – emailed to apologise for making me redundant as her favoured source of book recommendations. Beneath that stark notice of termination stood a link: www.bookseer.com. Hackles already up, I clicked through to a screen that asked me the title and author of the last book I'd read.
"The Illustrated Man", I typed, and "Ray Bradbury". In the wink of a modem I was furnished with a list of recommendations from both Amazon and LibraryThing. On the Amazon list, understandably enough, there were a few other Bradbury titles mentioned – Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles – as well as Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Also Watchmen, which I thought was a rather good and not entirely obvious suggestion.
The logic behind LibraryThing's recommendations, however, was less discernible. Would Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian cycle get a mention? How about Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, which shares Bradbury's interest in commingling the horrific, the fantastic and the imperfectly human? Nope: Wuthering Heights. Quite madly, the rest of the list comprised Jane Austen novels and "saucy" rip-offs of the same.

The Tuscaloosa Liberal Examiner quotes Charlotte Brontë's conventionality-is-not-morality phrase to describe Governor Mark Sanford's sex scandal, The Times Literary Supplement recovers a 1905 article by Virginia Woolf which includes a couple of Brontë references, The Philadelphia Citypaper contains an enigmatic Wuthering Heights reference and the San Francisco Gate recommends Wuthering Heights 1939.

oberlep27 has uploaded to flickr (also on Discombobulated D.C.) a complete set of pictures (on the right) of the recent performances of Jane Eyre. The Musical by the TheatreLab in Washington D.C. One of the violin players in the performances is Joshua Coyne who is the subject of an article on WTOP.com. Student in the States recommends Jane Eyre, Without You I'll Be Miserable At Best, Into the quiet and Only from the heart can you reach the sky mention Wuthering Heights.

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