Writers who break their own rules

The Courier-Journal interviews the author Rebecca Makkai:

I still look for that in fiction, and at this point I especially love the writers who break their own rules. That sucker-punch ending of “Atonement,” for instance. Or the entirety of Charlotte Brontë's “Villette.”

Nicholas D. Kristof  makes a top ten Best Beach Readings for the New York Times:

“Wuthering Heights,” by Emily Brontë, may be literature’s greatest love story. Catherine must choose between her soul mate, Heathcliff, who lacks status and education, and the far more respectable Edgar. The characters are achingly luminous: they are shaped by 19th-century presumptions about class and male dominance, but are subject to irrepressible human emotions.

According to the Indian writer Kankana Basu, Emily's book has other qualities too. In the Deccan Herald:

Q Which is the most erotic book you have read?
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. There is a feeling of dark latent eroticism all through.

Erica Jong in the New York Times talks about the perception of sex in our society and takes a look at the past:

Punishing the sexual woman is a hoary, antique meme found from “Jane Eyre” to “The Scarlet Letter” to “Sex and the City,” where the lustiest woman ended up with breast cancer.

And, in the same newspaper, Maureen Dowd yearns for the next film project by Martin Scorsese, a biopic of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton:

Whether to wuther?
I’m never in doubt.
I’m obsessed with obsessions.
Give me a book or a movie about lovers in the depths of a “Wuthering Heights” passion or a Proustian fixation, and I’m off to the moors with a box of madeleines.
So my interest was aroused when I read that one of our most celebrated obsessive filmmakers was going to make a movie about one of our most celebrated obsessive couples. Martin, Liz and Dick — what a threesome.

The Montgomery Advertiser tells some anecdotes of a (massive) film and theatre posters sale in Montgomery, Alabama. Including this one:

Julie Kravec said she brought a list of about 20 post­ers she was looking for and ended up with four.
"It was crazy, but crazy fun," Kravec said.
While it was Kravec's first time visiting the theater, her daughter, Emily, had been be­fore and said she enjoyed the "personal" experience she gets from watching movies at the Capri. Of the posters they were able to get, they were most proud of "Jane Eyre." (Matt Okarmus)

Devyn Reynolds LIBR271A Blog reviews Classical Comics's Jane Eyre adaptation; A Girl, Books and Other Things review Jane Eyre 2011; Acervo João Piol (in Portuguese) posts an imaginative account (with some blunders) of Emily Brontë's life; the Brontë Sisters continues covering Charlotte Brontë's honeymoon in Ireland; AntiqueThings uploaded to YouTube a reading of a letter of Charlotte to Constantin Heger, 8 January 1845.

Categories: Charlotte Brontë, Comics, Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Villette, Wuthering Heights