Being best friends with Jane

The Asheville Citizen-Times talks with Elizabeth Kostova:

It's not surprising that one of the books that changed Kostova's life had been about a woman testing her strength — “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. Kostova was 14 when she read it.
“When I read ‘Jane Eyre,' I realized a few things,” Kostova said in a recent interview with the Citizen-Times. “One was that it had been written by a woman. That was incredible to me, because I had interest already in becoming a writer. ...
“So I felt very close to this woman, whoever she was long ago, who'd written a book about a character something like herself, and made up this huge story.
“But the other thing I experienced,” Kostova said, “was being allowed into these lives that were dramatic and rather dark and adult. For the first time, I had a feeling beyond the feeling of reading childhood adventures. I was thinking: This is almost like being best friends with this character.” (Rob Neufeld)

WestLinn Tidings tells about a local resort for writers with Brontë decoration:

Whitcomb said Willamette Writers is in the process of finding an antique desk for the room, which is decorated with a tea set, settee and portraits of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde and more. (Claire Oliver)

Soundblab reviews the latest album by Religious to Damn, Glass Prayer:

It means that one obvious criticism of Glass Prayer is impossible to avoid: specifically, that this is just a very good Kate Bush impersonation. And that might be true, for the most part. But it is a very good Kate Bush impersonation. The group's most Bush moment comes on the exquisite title track, which begins with thumping 'Hounds of Love' drums, followed by twisting, tinkling piano a la 'Wuthering Heights' before Atash's swooping, seductive vocals shimmer into being before us. (M'Lady's)

The Observer reviews Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 by Gary Gutting:

Talk about the textual topography of the soul can be handy for seminars on Wuthering Heights, but even the most radically decentred subject must pay back their student loan. (Christopher Bray)

A Grade 5 spelling bee winner and reader of Jane Eyre in Vernon Morning Star; New Welsh Review posts briefley about the Aberystwyth Arts Centre's Wuthering Heights Wales tour; La Professora d'Inglese (in Italian) continues posting about Jane Eyre; 100bookexperiment compares Wuthering Heights and George Orwell's 1984; A Reader's Adventure reviews April Lindner's Jane; Small Grey Cat Studio posts an acrylic on paper drawing of Top Withins; AndrewBaren posts a video of a snowy Main Street in Haworth.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Books, Jane Eyre, Haworth, Music, References, Wuthering Heights