Insomnia & Diary of a Nobody

Just a couple of mentions in the press today:

This article in The Bakersfield Californian about insomnia quotes Charlotte Brontë:

Insomnia, at least in literature and movies, mirrors an unsettled conscience. "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow," wrote the novelist Charlotte Brontë. (Valeria Schultz)

We read the following in this review of the most recent show by the comedian Reginald D. Hunter, Pride and Prejudice and Niggas:

Before Reginald D Hunter can officially start he happily addresses the recent controversy over his show's title. Pride & Prejudice & Niggas was chosen when the black comedian and his girlfriend mischievously tried adding the 'N word' to unlikely phrases. It was nearly called Wuthering Heights & Niggas ... or Finding Nemo & Niggas. (Bruce Dessau in The Evening Standard).

Finally, we read in The Independent what the next project is for Susannah White, the director of the recent BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre.

The 19th century novel The Diary of a Nobody, described by Evelyn Waugh as "the funniest book the world" is to be adapted for television.

George and Weedon Grossmith's novel, centring on the misfortunes of Charles Pooter, a self-delusional city clerk with lofty social aspirations, is to be screened by BBC4 as part of its Edwardian series in the Spring. (...)

Clerkenwell Films, the production company founded by the actor John Hannah, is to produce the adaptation, which is to be begin filming in January.Susanna White, who directed BBC1's adaptation of Jane Eyre, will direct. (Helen McCormack)

Categories: In the News, Charlotte Brontë