Saving Jane Eyre from a supernatural conflagration of all books ever written

The Guardian interviews author Maggie O'Farrell:

The book I wish I’d writtenI. ’m not sure I wish I’d written it – because how on earth could I possibly have done so? – but I wholeheartedly admire and adore Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. If I could only save one book from a supernatural conflagration of all books ever written, it would be this one.

The Times recommends the best books to listen to such as

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Read by Thandie Newton (Audible)
Riveting, accomplished — you’ll want to hear Newton narrate more. (Patricia Nicol)

Vanity Fair has Cyndi Lauper answer the Proust Questionnaire.

Who are your favorite writers? The Brontë sisters, and I love Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Lisa See, Haruki Murakami, Patti Smith, and Charles Dickens.

The Irish Times features the novel My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell.

“It was a gradual thing,” Russell says of arriving at that realisation. “It’s hard to say what my idea of a love story was when I was young. I would have allowed for a lot of darkness and obsession and violence – I mean, look at the Brontë novels. (Tanya Sweeney)

Esquire interviews her about it too.

ESQ: That’s a huge period of emotional and physical growth that you were writing the book over, how did it change over the course of your writing? KER: When I was younger I saw it as a love story, but my idea of what a love story could be left a lot of room for abuses, darkness and obsession. I was a bookish kid and loved Brontë novels. I thought Wuthering Heights was the height of romance and that is certainly a story with obsession and violence. It wasn’t until I was in mid-to-late twenties and I learned more about how symptoms of trauma can manifest in a person, especially prolonged trauma from sexual abuse, that I started to see it differently. The more I learned about that the more I recognised Vanessa, and so it was a matter of still holding onto this idea of it being a love story – because that’s something Vanessa clings to in the novel – but also understanding what PTSD can do to the brain and body. (Olivia Ovenden)

Forbes asks several travel writers for books to travel from your own home.

Amy Alipio, Senior Editor National Geographic Travel
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“For me, books have always been linked to wanderlust. To paraphrase Walter Kirn, journeys begin in the mind, with an image or a story, and finish in the world. I read Wuthering Heights, and wanted to travel to Britain’s moors; I recently read A Gentleman in Moscow and of course now I really want to visit Moscow.” (Tamara Thiessen)

Buzz gives perfectly sound advice for lockdown (read what you feel like reading) by putting readers off several books:

Read the classics
We'll tell you a secret, lots of the classics are pure shite. Wuthering Heights? Dull. Mansfield Park? Godawful. Moby Dick? Call me uninterested.
While we do promote reading, you don't have to spend your time in lockdown reading books that people tell you you should 'read before you die'.
Read whatever the hell you like. Read chick-lit without guilt. Read thrillers to your heart's content. Read the back of a cereal box if it makes you happy. (Fiona Kelly)

Screen Rant recommends '10 Movies To Watch If You Loved Emma'.

7/10 Jane Eyre (2011)
On the other end of classic British literature is Charlotte Brontë, who serves almost as a far dark and complicated version of Jane Austen. If you're missing some atmospheric shots of abandoned moors, Jane Eyre is the film for you.
The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, and Judi Dench in some really stellar roles. It also serves as a visual feast and is gorgeous to look at, with Cary Joji Fukunaga directing it superbly. It contains a lot of the similar set dressing and costuming as Emma. but with a little bit harder of an edge. (Matt Berger)

The Telegraph features the wonderful Julie Walters and her latest film, The Secret Garden.

We are sitting in this hotel in west London because Walters is promoting her latest movie, a lusciously beautiful adaptation of The Secret Garden, which has been given a rather clever Brontë-esque twist by its director Marc Munden. She plays the harsh, dictatorial housekeeper, Mrs Medlock, alongside the psychotically depressed widower Lord Archibald Craven, played by Colin Firth. Their quiet, secretive lives are transformed by the arrival of Craven’s niece from India, the difficult, strong-willed Mary Lennox, brilliantly portrayed by Dixie Egerickx. (Louise Gannon)

Billboard lists '12 Metal and Hard Rock Albums MIA on Spotify' such as

Celtic Frost, Cold Lake (1988)
This Swiss group were experimental pioneers of the '80s metal underground, infusing dark orchestrations and avant-garde quirkiness into their grinding, doomy, and sometimes thrashy sound. Their early music certainly captured the thrash zeitgeist, and they challenged perceptions of genre limitations on their first three releases. They even quoted Charles Baudelaire and Emily Brontë in their lyrics. And then came... Cold Lake. (Bryan Reesman)

El Periódico (Spain) looks into Daphne du Maurier's 'complex sexuality' and her novel Rebecca.

El malentendido es que la novela siempre se ha leído como una intensa historia de amor, la de una cenicienta y su príncipe azul, una especie de edición renovada de ‘Jane Eyre’, en la que la loca en el altillo, la difunta, es exquisita e imponente, una supermujer que en vida pisaba fuerte y hacía su voluntad (¿alguna objeción a eso? ). Pero en realidad, a poco que el lector o la lectora suspendan en algún momento su credulidad y eviten dejarse manipular por la asfixiante y hábil trama, se comprobará que él es un Barba Azul que paradójicamente se nos muestra como víctima, y ella, alguien encantado de conocer esa ‘mancha’ en el historial de su marido. Porque alguien que ha asesinado a su esposa tiene su corazón de nuevo en circulación. (Elena Hevia) (Translation)