Harold Bloom, literary critic who wrote of the ‘anxiety of influence,’ dies at 89 – Washington Post
Windsor Castle’s Inner Hall closed by Queen Victoria opens after revamp – BBC News
‘Clueless’ to be rebooted as a drama series, internet says ‘as if’ – Newsweek
‘Our heritage needs to be saved’: Treasured lighthouses among historic buildings at risk – Country Life
This Jane Austen Letter Highlights the Horrors of 19th-Century Dentistry – Smithsonian
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Announces 2020 Season – Broadway World
Why did Andrew Davies give Sanditon an unhappy ending? To make the Jane Austen Society shriek for more – The Times (UK)
Daniel Mendelsohn’s 6 all-time favorite books – Yahoo! news
The blessing of solitude – Daily Times
Are MCU Superhero Movies ‘Cinema’ or Not? Every Hollywood Star Who’s Weighed in on the Debate – IGN (only linking this because someone pulled out the Mark Twain Jane Austen quote embedded below)
Mark Twain once said of Jane Austen “Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”Sometimes even the greatest artists can talk shit about work as immortal as their own. They’re allowed to be wrong.
— The Haunting of C. Robert Carg-Hill House (@Massawyrm) October 4, 2019
