The book I can’t stop thinking about: Wuthering Heights never really leaves me. Also, I can never get Toni Morrison’s Beloved out of my system. (Elise Dumpleton)
Clash interviews singer/songwriter Anna B Savage about her library.
What draws you to certain books?
Definitely their covers. I know that’s the exact opposite of the idiom, but as I have moonlighted as a book cover designer I have to be honest. A good cover can draw me in. Similarly, if the cover is done by someone whose work I really respect, like Suzanne Dean (although she’s at Vintage so it’s bound to be a classic anyway) but her series of the Brontë sisters lead me to read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre for the first times, just because I wanted those covers.
AV Club reviews Sloane Leong's new comic book
Graveneye.
There are even echoes of Wide Sargasso Sea, reminding readers of how family and wealth can contort women into monstrousness. (Caitlin Rosberg)
Fashion Journal (Australia) shares an excerpt from Clementine Ford’s new book,
How We Love.
I’m not a particularly gloomy person. I read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre as a teenager but, outside of tortured diary entries detailing all the ways my parents didn’t understand me accompanied by crude drawings of my body that made me look like either a heavy water balloon suspended by the neck or a misshapen duck, I could never really summon the passion for a demanding routine of gothic depression.
The Quietus reviews Tori Amos's new album
Ocean to Ocean.
Tori Amos was part of a generation of female artists who, in the early 1990s, plunged a dagger into the heart of the patriarchy. Tumultuous and emotionally gory, she played piano as though banishing demons. Her lyrics were meanwhile a visceral blend of Erica Jong and Emily Brontë. “Boy you best pray that I bleed real soon, how’s that thought for you” she crooned on ‘Silent All These Years’, one of the best songs ever written about a life made small by the prejudices of the people closest to you. (Ed Power)
Fashion designer Anna Sui describes one of her Thanksgiving looks for
Vogue.
Soon after their initial intro, Sui and her nieces, actress Chase Sui Wonders, director Jeannie Sui Wonders, and Isabelle Sui (who works with Anna in the family business) were at Hay’s apartment trying on Batsheva dresses for their family Thanksgiving. “We were in Batsheva’s bathroom and putting on these dresses and twirling around in the living room,” remembers Chase. “It felt so special, like such a New York moment.” (Of the final Thanksgiving looks, Anna says with a smile, “It was very Brontë sisters.”) (Steff Yotka)
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