Queer horror in Wuthering Heights

The Guardian has an obituary of illustrator Jerry Pinkney.

In addition to picture books, Pinkney illustrated an eclectic selection of classic adult novels, including Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Rabbit, Run by John Updike and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. (Julia Eccleshare)

It's the Pennsylvania Franklin Library edition of 1975.

The Reed College Quest looks into the origins of 'Queer Horror'.

On Thursday, October 28, Portland-based multidisciplinary artist Anthony Hudson presented their lecture “Tales from Queer Horror,” consisting of a brief history of queer horror as well as information about their Hollywood Theatre program of the same name. [...]

Hudson noted people often think of queer horror as a subgenre, but Hundson argues that it is not in fact a subgenre but rather an integral part of horror as a whole. They argued that horror’s queer roots can be traced all the way back to gothic stories such as Wuthering Heights and Carmilla, the latter of which is one of the first vampire stories. Gothic stories, Hudson argued, frequently feature “a sexualized other who [the characters] want, but can’t have because society will not allow [them] to because it’s said to be wrong.” (Betsy Wight)

Radio Angulo (Cuba) interviews poet Pablo Armando Fernández, who acknowledges the big impact of Wuthering Heights in his life.

-Muchas veces has hablado sobre lo que fue para ti el encuentro con la novela Cumbres Borrascosas...

-Fue absolutamente todo. Si yo no hubiera escuchado en Delicias una versión radial de Cumbres Borrascosas a los 10 años, no me hubiese hecho escritor. Mi imaginación me llevó a la Inglaterra de Yorkshire, al lugar donde se desarrolla aquella novela; me devuelve a personajes como Heathcliff pero también a personajes como Cathy. Yo siempre he dicho que mi vida literaria ha estado influida por mujeres: Emily Brontë, Carson Mc Cullers, Marguerite Yourcenar... (Eugenio Marrón Casanova) (Translation)

Independent (Ireland) reviews the novel Learwife by JR Thorp.

Sydney-born Thorp, now living in Cork, has dreamed into being a complex and compelling protagonist and a convincing exploration of a veiled female story. Just as Jean Rhys, in Wide Sargasso Sea, gave a voice to the first Mrs Rochester from Jane Eyre, Thorp has fleshed out King Lear’s wife. (Martina Devlin)

My London reports that Hathersage has been named the best 'lesser-known village' in the UK.

Famed author, Charlotte Brontë, also has links to the picturesque village.

North Lees Hall provided the basis for Thornfield Hall in Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre. Brontë’s childhood best friend, Ellen Nussey, also had family links to the village church.

Nussey’s brother was Hathersage’s vicar and Charlotte reportedly stayed at the vicarage with Ellen for three weeks in 1845.

The surrounding moors also provided inspiration for her novels. (Beth Gulliver)

The Times reviews the audiobook of The Library by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen:

Nabbing Sean Barrett, the narrator of Mick Herron, Jo Nesbo and Wilbur Smith, to read it was a stroke of genius. “Nothing good can come of this,” you warn yourself as, voice pregnant with menace, he tells of the glories of manuscripts torn apart to provide loo paper, early printed books burnt by religious fanatics, and the “idle books, and riffe raffes” chucked away by Oxford’s Sir Thomas Bodley. Cheap access to books came via circulating libraries, such as the one visited by the Brontë sisters in Keighley, and the Boots reading rooms. (Christina Hardyment)

The Advertiser has a quiz that includes the following question:

In which Charlotte Brontë novel is Edward Rochester a major character?

What'sOnStage has a short video of Lucy McCormick and Ash Hunter (Cathy and Heathcliff in Wise Children's Wuthering Heights) talking about the production. Radio Zachód (Poland) considers Outlander writer Diana Gabaldon as a 'fourth Brontë sister'.