Neil Gaiman's 'wild Heathcliff hair'

This is how the Telegraph sees author Neil Gaiman:

Gaiman would make a great vampire himself. He has been wearing black for 30 years – today his jacket, tailor-made for the Oscars, has a buttoned box pleat at the back, like a Victorian frock-coat. He has a chiselled, ageless face (he’s almost 50) and wild Heathcliff hair that reverts, he says, within 20 minutes of a haircut. He speaks precisely, with a slight American overlay, since, though he grew up in Hampshire and Sussex, he has been living for decades in Minnesota, home of his ex-wife’s family. (Nicolette Jones)

You can see a picture of him here, in case you don't remember what he actually looks like under that literary sort of description.

Xtra! reviews Emma Donoghue's Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature.

Donoghue casts her literary net very wide, from heavyweights like Dickens, Shakespeare and Brontë to lesser-known authors such as LT Meade and Henry Rider Haggard. (Alice Lawlor)

NPR discussed the situation in Turkey where 'a small newspaper with just 50,000 readers, called Taraf' is 'spearheading the attack against alleged military coup plotters'. Part of the transcript says,

Julia Rooke in Istanbul reports now on the small newspaper that's been punching well above its weight.
JULIA ROOKE: To reach Taraf, you walk through a European-style cafe bookshop. The smell of real coffee wafts through the air, and you can sit on a leather arm chair and read books on anything from the Republic founder Kemal Ataturk, to novels by Charlotte Brontë and Victor Hugo.

CBS Chicago reports the rising trend of bringing graphic novels of the Classics into the classroom - such as Classical Comics' Jane Eyre - and Associated Content has an article on 'Zombiefied Literature: Rewriting the Classics and History' which mentions Jane Slayre.

Guess what's coming now - yes, our very own Twilight zone. The Herald (Ireland) includes 'Twihard Trivia' such as

Meyer says she based Twilight on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; New Moon on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; Eclipse on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Breaking Dawn on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Sales of Wuthering Heights quadrupled in the UK after Twilight was released. In the book, Bella compares her love for Edward with Cathy's passion for Heathcliff. (Katie Byrne)

And another herald, the Buenos Aires Herald writes:

Still, Twilight’s main drama is how teenagers deal with prohibition. Meyer’s quotes explain the source of her ideas. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice are some of the references. As in these books, Twilight’s mastermind enhances the boy-meets-girl-and-boy-interferes tale with rivalry, family tensions, society’s ethics and life-or-death danger. (Mariana Marcaletti)

Becky's Book Reviews has completed her All About the Brontës Challenge. And YouTube user MrBlot has uploaded a slideshow of images of the restored cemetery at the site of the Old Bell Chapel in Thornton.

Categories: Books, References, Wuthering Heights