Two Glass Towns

Shondaland has picked Isabel Greenberg's Glass Town as one of 'The Best Books of 2020'.

Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës by Isabel Greenberg

For many English majors, Glasstown is a piece of pub trivia, the name of the imaginary world the Brontë family created as children. It was their playground as they developed their craft and the voices that would populate the worlds of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. In Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel, Glasstown comes alive as an intricate world of love, betrayal, and political intrigue, as well as a distraction (sometimes an all-encompassing one) from the loss of the Bronte's oldest sisters. (Molly Horan)

According to the Broadway World Classifieds it looks like a different Glass Town is also in the making.

GLASS TOWN -- NEW MUSICAL, MUSICIANS NEEDED

WEB SITE: http://instagram.com/glasstownmusical

E-MAIL: miriampultro@gmail.com

ADDRESS: 312 W 36th St

New York, NY

Listing Information: New musical to record live on stage in NYC in February, to stream in March. "Glass Town" features the four Brontë siblings performing as a rock band. One week rehearsal, two days of in-person performance/filming. COVID filming regulations will be followed. Small stipend. This is a non-AEA production. We are actively seeking musicians who are female or non-binary.

GUITARIST -- proficient on electric and acoustic.

VIOLINIST -- please note any experience playing with folk or rock ensembles: Irish sessions, improvisation, etc.

News Letter interviews harpist Lesley Magee.

Q. What ‘classic’ just doesn’t do it for you?

A. I seriously cannot think of a single classic that I have not enjoyed! From Thomas Hardy to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens, give me more, more, more! Of note is A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy. Not well known but such a fabulous little book, with a few laughs for measure. (Una Culkin)

Agreed about Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes.

The Sydney Morning Herald recommends Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day by Captain Tom Moore whose

autobiography, delightfully understated, recreates his century: especially vivid are his descriptions of growing up in Yorkshire, near Brontë territory, walking the moors with his dog, family life between the wars and his experiences in Burma fighting the Japanese. (Steven Carroll)

La Nación (Argentina) has an article looking back on the illnesses of famous people throughout history.

Poco importaba que le recordara que al filósofo y matemático Blas Pascal lo habían perseguido jaquecas y dolores abdominales desde los 18 años, que Goethe tuvo tos hemorrágica, que Anne Brontë murió de tuberculosis, Lord Byron terminó en la invalidez, Vivaldi fue asmático, a Matisse una bronquitis lo llevó a Niza, donde se vio obligado a vivir recluido en su cama durante trece años por complicaciones de una operación de cáncer de colon, Héctor Berlioz recurría a los narcóticos para soportar el dolor de muelas, Beethoven quedó sordo y Kant tenía terribles ataques de gota. Lo único que quería era librarse de esa discapacidad (por fortuna, transitoria) que le impedía disfrutar de las pequeñas o grandes maravillas de la vida, incluso cuando transcurre sin apartarse demasiado de la rutina. (Nora Bär) (Translation)