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Send in the Girls' A Brontë Burlesque is one of the shows that will be performed again next week, as part of the Fringe Holdovers (the most popular and critically praised shows):

At the Westbury Theatre in the Arts Barns, Fringe Theatre Adventures holds over seven shows.
A Brontë Burlesque, Aug. 31 (10 p.m.) and Sept. 1. (5 p.m.)

Financial Times interviews the writer Anita Desai:

What book changed your life?Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. I’d never before read a book with such power. It was the language that really swept me off my feet. (Rosalind Sykes)

The Naples Florida Weekly reviews JoanneCampbell Slan's Death of a Schoolgirl:

As Ms. Slan elaborates her story, she builds a credible sense of place. Her descriptions of architecture, décor, clothing, transportation, sanitation, meals and manners ring true, yet she wisely avoids overdoing them. Distinctions of social class are important to the novel’s time and place, as they were in the source novel by Ms. Brontë, and Ms. Slan handles these matters with authority. (Phil Jason)

The book is also reviewed on The Season.

Joe Queenan talks about rereadings in The Globe and Mail:

John Cheever’s short stories have lost their hypnotic power after repeated readings, perhaps because of his fixation on a social class in which I have no interest; William Trevor’s stories, on the other hand, have not. Madame Bovary, after four readings, still seems to me to be the greatest novel ever written, though I have only read War and Peace once. Le Père Goriot never ceases to amaze, nor does Jane Eyre.

Jezebel has an article about the difference in the perception of oral sex in France and the US, but what really amused us was this introduction:

"What is it about Americans and la pipe?" asked my Parisian friend Anne* in between puffs of Marlboro. I stopped and looked at her, perplexed. La pipe is French slang for "fellatio." (...)
*not her real name. She's named for a different Brontë sister. (Chloe S. Angyal)

Anonymity secured, then.

The Craven Herald & Pioneer talks about a local town crier participaing in The X-Factor:

Eliza Mowe’s audition for X Factor is due to be screened, after she caught the eye with her town crier costume.
“It was an amazing, thrilling and surreal experience,” said Eliza, who performed the high-pitched song Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.
“I felt like a wailing cat,” she said. “I didn’t want to make a fool of myself, so I sang it in a lower key. But I kept my dignity.”

An alert from Brontë Country. In The Telegraph & Argus:

A wide range of activities and events are on offer across the district for families looking for some fun this bank holiday weekend. (...)
Helen’s Heritage Walks will be hosting a 90-minute walk around Haworth village and the moors complete with readings from Wuthering Heights from 2pm to 3.30pm on Saturday. Meet at West Lane, Haworth. Tickets are £6 for adults, £3 for children.

According to the Bradford Council website:

A Taste of the Moors - a 90 minute walk around Haworth village and the moors with readings from Wuthering Heights. Rough, but well-used, moorland tracks. Walking shoes/boots are recommended.

The Times talks about the TV series Hunderby:

A young maiden (Alexandra Roach) is shipwrecked off the coast of England in 1830. After being brought back to life by the dashing Dr Foggerty (Rufus Jones), she marries a loathsome country pastor (Alex MacQueen) and ends up re-living the story of Rebecca. The writer Julia Davis, who also plays the twisted housekeeper obsessed with the memory of her late mistress, describes Hunderby as a comedy period drama” rather than satire, but in truth it works best as a spoof. It is an extended and inspired sketch composed of every cliché and minutely observed detail from a thousand adaptations of Austen, Brontë and Du Maurier — to which is added a bracing dose of Davis’s pitch-black humour. (David Chater)

The same newspaper has an article about Howard Jacobson. His youth years are mentioned:

My first lecture was to 700 people — and I loved it!” He heaped Leavisite [for Q.D. Leavis] scorn on Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Wuthering Heights, and gained an easy reputation as an iconoclast. (Lynn Barber)

Emma in Oz compares Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall;  this last book is reviewed on W świecie książek (in Polish) and the first one on Lace Vintage Book Reviews and Go-Go-Rama; Audrey's Reviews posts about Villette; BitchMedia's Retropop argues that Charlotte Brontë would have liked Kelly Clarkson (sic); NonSoloGiappone (in Italian) reviews on YouTube Agnes Grey; Pink Chanel Suit compares Heathcliff and Snape.