Howard Moon rescues Cathy

We read in the Hartford Courant about an original teaching strategy:

In fact, I'm the one giving my students gifts: I have bowls of candy in my office. If they drop by for a Snickers or a Twix, I figure I can get a brief Brontë lecture in there while they're still chewing. Hey, you take the treat, you pay the price. You want a Milky Way? You sit and listen to some of my more esoteric theories on "Wuthering Heights." (Gina Barreca)

In the local business news of the Winston-Salem Journal we find this:

Tyler Cloherty has been promoted to assistant editor at McFarland & Co. Inc., Publishers, of Jefferson. She joined McFarland in 2006 as an editorial assistant. She previously worked as a grant writer in Asheville. She is the regional co-representative for the American branch of the Brontë Society.

As a matter of fact she is the represesentative of the Region 5 (District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia) American Chapter of the Brontë Society.

The Star (Malaysia) reviews Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation. The review begins by discussing YA adult novels:

If I had been given a choice, if I had been pointed in the direction of rows and rows of “YA Lit” would I have bothered with Charlotte Brontë, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, F. Scott Fitzgerald and all those other authors who did not write specifically for teenagers but whose works I discovered and loved as a teen? (Daphne Lee)

Next interviews author Jude Dibia, another Brontëite:

My literal influences include Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and a handful of African writers like Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta and Cyprian Ekwensi. (Obidike Okafor)

The Boston Globe reviews  Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life’s Stages Through Books by Arnold Weinstein:

He provides graceful summaries of many well-known growing-up plots — “Romeo and Juliet,’’ “Wuthering Heights,’’ “Jane Eyre,’’ “Huckleberry Finn,’’ “Great Expectations’’ — and enticing introductions to lesser-known ones — Francisco de Quevedo’s “The Swindler’’ and Tarjei Vesaas’ “The Ice Palace.’’  (Barbara Fisher)

Several UK media outlets talk about the BBC's Let's Dance For Comic Relief final last night. As in the previous week, Noel Fielding reprised her Kate Bush impersonation but with a twist:

Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding reprised his version of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, with Julian Barratt making an appearance at the end dressed as Heathcliff.

AhLan! publishes a summary of the London Fashion Week:

Roksanda Ilincic is running late as London traffic plays havoc with people’s arrival times. Having been inspired by dark clouds, metal flowers and the Brontë sisters, the collection is as bewitching as you would expect. (Amy Sessions)

Associated Content publishes the article "Jane Eyre: Oblivious or Needy?"; La professora d'inglese posts about Wuthering Heights (in Italian); Arlene Bice Blog has been revisiting Jane Eyre adaptations; Biased Book Reviews posts about April Lindner's Jane; Megan Goes to Leeds posts some pictures of her visit to Haworth; Top Romance Novels reviews Juliet Gael's Romancing Miss Brontë; Oooooh la la! has a story of love and hate with unchristian Jane Eyre... almost as Elizabeth Rigby striking back

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