"It’s a wonderful role with intense conversations"

The Independent reviews Michèle Roberts's Mud. Stories of Sex and Love:

This is a delicious book, to be savoured mouthful by mouthful like caviar – or perhaps as a child comes to know the world, by stuffing every object we encounter into our mouths. For that is how these stories work. Black suede shoes "look good enough to eat"; a handful of moist earth or the rich, squidgy mud itself demands to be relished intensely by all senses . (...)
Several times Roberts invites us to imagine ourselves at the periphery of a well-known Victorian classic, for instance as a servant in the house of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, observing the governess and watching Adele make friends with the mad woman in the attic. (Elaine Feinstein)

The Smart Set reviews Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue:

As [the author] recounts in her introduction, "I remained a greedy reader, and when I found myself falling for a girl, at 14, I began seeking out stories of desire between women." Inseparable is the result of her decades-long search. I was afraid the book would be reminiscent of oh so many women's studies classes, teasing out hidden or nonexistent lesbian themes from classic works, inspecting the orphanage scenes of Jane Eyre to determine whether young Jane and Helen crossed over from friends to something more. (Jessa Crispin)

More websites interviewing Mia Wasikowska who is presenting Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right which is a Focus Features production like Jane Eyre. From BlackBook:

You just finished shooting Jane Eyre. Is it a pretty straightforward adaptation?
Yeah. It’s very much a classic Jane Eyre. Things will be flushed out in a way that maybe hasn’t been done in previous adaptations. Cary’s an usual choice for the director: his last film was about illegal immigration. He’s going to bring some interesting things to it, a lot of elements that aren’t as focused on. It’s dialogue heavy, obviously. It’s a wonderful role with intense conversations. (Ashley Simpson)

The Belfast Telegraph interviews singer (and Brontëite) Eddi Reader:

But the prospect of playing the Brontë Music Club, located in the heart of the paternal homeland of the famous Brontë sisters around Rathfriland, elicits an even more excited reaction from the star.
“I’m a mad fan of Wuthering Heights,” confesses the 50-year-old Glaswegian excitedly.
“I'm drawn to anything that has a little bit of artistic thought put to it!” (...)
Romance is an integral part of Reader’s music and, judging from our interview, her personality (indeed the Wuthering Heights references pop up periodically during our chat). (Matthew McCreary)

So many readers, critics and scholars discussing the sexual tension between Jane Eyre and Rochester in Jane Eyre, when a journalist from the Orange County Weekly reviewing a local production of Spring's Awakening knows better:

Most of the characters seem as though they’ve walked off the pages of a Charlotte Brontë novel, overshadowing the seething sexual tension and bogging down the rather salacious events. (Joel Beers)

Blessed ignorance.

Twilight zone today:

Meyer says each of her four Twilight novels was inspired by and loosely based on a classic work of literature, such as "Pride and Prejudice" or "Wuthering Heights." If she decides to continue the series, publishers are touting several familiar books for inspiration. We might soon see "Pat The Bunny -- and Then Drink His Blood" and "The South Beach Diet: Join The Walking Dead." (Danny Tyree in Marshall County Tribune)

PRLog presents Bedtime Stories for the Faint of Heart by Jeva Singh-Anand whose main influences come from

Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Roald Dahl, and Emily Brontë.
Emily Brontë of "Wuthering Heights?"
“Wuthering Heights has been billed as this kitschy Victorian romance, but the novel is actually a chilling insight into the mind of a brutal sociopath, an emotional domestic abuser, whose lust for revenge destroys nearly everyone in his intimate circle. Eventually, it leads to his own destruction,” he said.

Blackcurrants farmers with a thing for Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in Canterbury Times, a song which inspires this writer of Free Betting Online, Vanishing Point publishes a new Jane Eyre trading card: Jane Eyre, Age 10, Month Long Challenges is reading Jane Eyre, Coffinmaker from SparkLife is blogging about Wuthering Heights, with a peculiar sense of humour. The Squeee publishes a (bad) review of Hilary Bailey's Mrs Rochester. The Sequel to Jane Eyre (1997), Book Nut reviews briefly the Classical Comics' adaptation of Jane Eyre. Linocutboy proposes an original book cover for Jane Eyre.

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