Far Out Magazine lists 'The songs Stevie Nicks wrote Inspired by the books she loved' and one of them is
‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ is another of Nicks’ songs inspired by a work of literature, the novel of the same name by Jean Rhys. After Nicks saw the film adaptation, she was inspired to pen a song after it: “Jean Rhys wrote this book as a precursor to Jane Eyre because of her love for the Brontë novel,” she explained. “I saw the film adaptation of the book in the early 1990s and it inspired me to write the song of the same name on my album.” (Elle Palmer)
La Tercera (Chile) reviews Roberto Calasso's posthumous memoir Memè Scianca.
Ya en la escuela, hace allí mismo los deberes del día siguiente y después de las clases empiezan las ‘benditas horas de soledad’, en las que pronto la lectura ocupa el lugar de ‘la guerra y el fútbol’, cuando aprende, de la mano de una edición popular de Cumbres borrascosas, a ‘sumergirse en un libro con la misma intensidad que se experimenta en el juego’. La novela de Emily Brontë le abre ‘el camino hacia una región ignota y fascinante’(Pablo Retamal N.) (Translation)
Nouvelles du monde (in French) features German writer Mithu Sanyal.
Nous buvons le thé dans une tasse de merchandising orange « Wuthering Heights ». Le classique d’Emily Brontë, dont elle vient d’écrire en allemand pour la série KiWi « Books of My Life », était en fait son premier livre pour adultes formateur. « La barre était haute. » (Translation)
A contributor to Varsity writes about ditching her smartphone for an old flip-phone.
I also spent Days 2 and 3 gleefully rediscovering my childhood CD-player. Unable to stream music on my phone, I spent the first 24-hours very much unsure how I was supposed to motivate myself to pre-read without Kate Bush lyrically screeching in the background. Imagine a week without ‘Wuthering Heights’. Awful, I know. (Natasha Macbeth)
