'We haven’t given up on Jane Eyre'

Mrt discusses classic books in the classroom:

Will Higgins, an English teacher at Dartmouth High School in Massachusetts, said he still believes in teaching the classics, but demands on students' time have made it necessary to cut back.

“We haven’t given up on 'Jane Eyre' and 'Pride and Prejudice.' We haven’t given up on ‘Hamlet’ or ‘The Great Gatsby,’″ Higgins said. But he said they have given up assigning others like “A Tale of Two Cities.” (Sharon Lurye)

Far Out has an article on the female writers who inspire Patti Smith.

Smith has cited the Brontë sisters as a huge source of inspiration, particularly the books Wuthering Heights by the middle sister, Emily, and Villette by the eldest, Charlotte. The musician even performed an intimate gig at the Brontë’s Old Schoolroom in Haworth, a building where they used to teach, just a stone’s throw from the house they once lived in. (Aimee Ferrier)

While Louder looks back on a 1984 interview with Kate Bush.

Did she write all the time? “No. I have to be forced to write for an album.” She wasn’t very prolific then? “I used to be. I used to write every day, and if it wasn’t very good keep a little bit and maybe use it in something else. As soon as Wuthering Heights became a hit, though, my whole routine was just blown apart. It was extraordinary how suddenly everything changed.” (Mick Wall)