Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Heathcliff: Why WUTHERING HEIGHTS Isn’t a Love Story

Fifty Shades of Heathcliff: Why WUTHERING HEIGHTS Isn’t a Love Story

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is often considered one of the great Victorian romances, mentioned in the same breath as classics like Pride and Prejudice and her sister Charlotte’s most famous work, Jane Eyre. But where Jane is a love story through and through, from the early meet-cute to the closing “Reader, I married him,”…

Round-Down: Enough of Genre Debate Already

Round-Down: Enough of Genre Debate Already

I’m a little disappointed in Jennifer Weiner. And not in the way you’d think. Certainly not in the same way as Jonathan Franzen. Rather, I’m disappointed that she’s seemingly buying into the genre vs. literary distinction while she (admirably and very hilariously) defends herself on Twitter against Franzen’s latest attacks. One of the things Weiner recently…