Wuthering HeightsHome Cooking

Hosted by Chris Piuma and Suzanne Conklin Akbari

The remainder of the letter is for yourself alone. I want to ask you two questions: the first is,—How did you contrive to preserve the common sympathies of human nature when you resided here? I cannot recognise any sentiment which those around share with me.

The second question I have great interest in; it is this—Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? I sha’n’t tell my reasons for making this inquiry; but I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I have married.

Chris finally reads Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and considers that novel’s many delights — even with its cast of unpleasant and hateful characters. Suzanne returns to the comfort reading of Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking, a collection of essays about food, and how it connects childhood, food, and the act of creating something out of whatever is at hand. They also talk about reconsidering books, reading about local history, and the pleasures of magazine writing.

85. Wuthering Heights / Home Cooking.

The Spouter-Inn Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights and Laurie Colwin’s essay collection Home Cooking. More episodes

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Show Notes.

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.

Laurie Colwin: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen.

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre.

Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey.

All three: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

Also by Laurie Colwin: More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen and Happy All the Time.

Our episodes on The Tempest and Frankenstein.

James Haffey: The Villain in Wuthering Heights.

Edward Gorey’s Baby Toss is most conveniently found on a jigsaw puzzle.

Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, 1939) vs. Wuthering Heights (Robert Fuest, 1970) vs. Wuthering Heights (Emerald Fennell, 2026).

Munsee Language and History Symposium.

David Demchuk: Red X.

Maggie Helwig: Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community.

Toronto’s serial killer.

Chris will be reading at the Portland Poetry Confluence on Saturday, October 4th. (The 297th reading that Spare Room, the reading series Chris helped found, has hosted! Yowza.)

Our episode on Emma.

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Chris (a poet) and Suzanne (a professor) spent six years talking about “great books” (whatever that means), and are now talking about reading (and all the things that means).

Nominated in 2020 for a Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Arts Program.

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