Haunting Tales and Gothic Garb

Aftermarket News interviews Monika LaPrete, marketing communications director at CRP Industries:

AMN: What advice would you give yourself just starting out in your career?

M.L.: I would probably tell myself to go more with the flow, be more flexible, not be so rigid. To not try to control every aspect of every minute of every day. One of my favorite quotes is by Charlotte Brontë, “Life is so constructed that the event does not, will not, cannot, match the expectation.”

The quote is from  Chapter XXXVI, The Apple of Discord.

La Razón (México) publishes a very personal and passionate story about how the writer María José Navía took to Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights and how fascinating the novel and life of Emily Brontë are. A compelling reading:

Es una figura rara en el panteón de escritoras; publicó una sola y enigmática novela. Emily Brontë fue parte de una familia literaria donde la muerte llegó muy pronto. Se sabe poco de ella. A poco más de 175 años de su partida, la escritora chilena María José Navia se propone rastrear el interés que ha generado hasta hoy, los espacios que ha abierto a la imaginación. Para ella, Cumbres Borrascosas es el mejor de los regalos, porque nunca sabemos con certeza qué nos trae: una casa que esconde fantasmas y, quizás, también un corazón. (...)

Yo creo que Emily Brontë nos dio una casa propia en la cual estar inquietas. Una casa para despertar y no para dormir, que recibe a quien entra con todo el peso de una historia de fantasmas. Una historia que creíamos saber (por las películas y las referencias pop) pero que, al leerla por primera vez, y el resto de las veces que sea necesario, nos damos cuenta de que es tanto, pero tanto más. Una historia oscura de todo lo oscuro que podemos ser, con personajes raros que no tienen que entenderse para ser leídos con voracidad. Personajes inexplicables pero seducidos por el poder de un relato. El que ellos y otros cuentan sobre sí mismos. Sí, de fondo está la historia de amor. O quizás ni siquiera de fondo, es otro fantasma que a veces se acerca a la ventana para ver qué tal nos va o, tal vez, para ver si lo dejamos entrar. (...) (Translation)

The Sun Star (Philippines) talks about  Freshpagesbyea:

A creative media hub curated by Eden Mae Aguanta, a 26-year-old Mass Communications graduate turned Literature postgraduate, it represents a departure from the contemplation of ancient libraries. (...)

“My favorite authors are the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, and Oscar Wilde. Growing up, I also read Bob Ong. My favorite Filipino writer is Lualhati Bautista. I loved reading Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez and Seek Ye Whore of  Yvette Tan,” she said. (David Ezra M. Francisquete)

Bodice, sort of,  news in The Times:

Yesterday, Radio 1 announced that its “Sound of 2024” is the young indie rock band The Last Dinner Party. The music is electric but the aesthetic is steeped in history. Think Wuthering Heights-era Kate Bush crossed with medieval goth-wife: corsets, lace, ribbons, cotton nightdresses, fishnet tights. (Alice Loxton)

Paper Magazine comments on the outfits of some Real Housewives series, we don't care so much to read the whole thing and know exactly what:

Meredith, meanwhile, gives Wuthering Heights after Catherine is dead and haunting the moors. (Joan Summers)

The Guardian asks several writers about their new year's reading resolutions. Sarah Waters says:

Then there’s Miranda Seymour’s I Used to Live Here Once, a new biography of Jean Rhys. I’m familiar with some of the details of Rhys’s extraordinary, rackety life, which featured periods of exile, heartbreak, alcoholism and literary obscurity. But I know hardly anything about her Caribbean childhood, and nothing about the writing process that produced masterpieces like Wide Sargasso Sea and Good Morning, Midnight. So I’m excited by the prospect of reading Seymour’s book, which promises to supply all that and much more.

The Irish Times interviews the writer Gerald Murnane and talks about his books:

The Plains was followed by Inland (1988), Murnane’s fourth novel; the reason we are talking today is that Inland is being reissued this month. Like all Murnane’s mature fiction, it is plotless and light on character, taking the form instead of perfectly weighted sentences reflecting on memories and images in the narrator’s head; the people, places and books he has known, from his experience of reading Wuthering Heights to the memory of a girl from his childhood.  (John Self)

Ouest-France interviews the artist Anne Hamelin:

Quelles sont les sources d’inspiration de ces Balades en imaginaire ?

A.H.: Ce sont les contes et les légendes celtiques, mais également l’époque victorienne avec le début de l’industrialisation, des machines à vapeur etc., une période faste en Angleterre au XIXe siècle. Mes œuvres s’inspirent beaucoup de la littérature : ici, Jules Verne, comme Emily Brontë ou encore Charles Dickens, ont nourri mon travail. (Translation)

Mercurio (Spain) presents some new books in Spanish, including Elizabeth Hardwick's Seduction and Betrayal:

En él mezcla la semblanza de escritoras con el análisis de la representación de las mujeres en la literatura, incluyendo textos sobre las hermanas Brontë, que «se tomaron muy en serio el carácter amenazante de la vida real». (Translation)

El Periódico (Spain) celebrates the 80th anniversary of the literary prize, Premio Nadal. One of the past winners was Carmen Laforet for her novel Nada: 

Tras su publicación, Nada fue considerada por la crítica como una innovadora novela existencialista y llegó a ser comparada con obras maestras de la literatura como La náusea, de Sartre, El extranjero, de Camus, o Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë. El resto es, una vez más, Historia. (Inés Martín Rodrigo) (Translation)

Derbyshire Times mentions how Kedleston Hall was one of the settings of Jane Eyre 2006. El Placer de la Lectura (in Spanish) lists books you have to read once in your life, including Jane Eyre. On the Brontë Parsonage Museum Facebook Wall you can take a look at a reel with:

A few highlights from our first week of conservation! This week we've been focused on checking the condition of any wooden furniture & some of our items in storage. Whilst our furniture on display is regularly cleaned and checked throughout the year, this period allows us to spend time thoroughly inspecting these items for any possible damage and waxing them. Our Conservation Period is also the primary time for assessing the condition of our collection items in storage that don\u2019t get looked at as often since they are in a more controlled environment. More behind the scenes content to follow ... The museum will be open this weekend from 10am - 5pm. Come and see our shiny furniture!