Why people recommend it
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a classic 1947 novel exploring intense, destructive passion and obsession on the Yorkshire moors through characters like Heathcliff and Catherine. Matt Glacius recommended the classic novel on The Ezra Klein Show after finishing a read-through, and John Williams shared a listener's recommendation of the book for Valentine's Day on The Book Review. Tyler Cowen mentioned on How I Write that he was rereading the classic novel and using artificial intelligence to analyze individual chapters as part of his literary process. Anna Runkle discussed the book on Modern Wisdom to provide a historical literary example of limerence and extreme human obsession, comparing it to classic figures like Dante and Beatrice. John Williams talked on The Book Review about finally finishing the novel, noting that it helped him understand the famous Kate Bush song, though he ultimately preferred Jane Eyre for having more narrative substance. Additionally, Chris Williamson mentioned the book on Modern Wisdom while arguing with a guest that great literature provides a much deeper window into the fundamental mysteries of the human mind and subjective experience than traditional neuroscience journals.
Who recommended it
- John Williams Recommended
- Tyler Cowen Discussed
- Matt Glacius Recommended
- Anna Runkle Discussed
- Chris Williamson Discussed
- Thomas Chatterton Williams Discussed
John Williams — 3 mentions
“viea haran andani said weaing Heights the ultimate Forbidden Love”
“in terms of what I've been reading this week well I finally finished weaing Heights which I've talked about in the past on the show um so I understand the Kate Bush song now and I do prefer Jane a so the country can sleep easier knowing my preference I think Jane a just has more going on in it”
“John I am reading weathering Heights you're just trying to make us feel bad”
Tyler Cowen — 2 mentions
“I'm also rereading Weathering Heights.”
“I'm also rereading weathering Heights I just keep on asking the AI what do you think of chapter 2”
Matt Glacius — 1 mention
“Weathering Heights, uh, which I just finished, um, a classic novel.”
Anna Runkle — 1 mention
“people can get lirant even when even when they're married obviously uh they they can be lirant when they're surrounded by options just obsessed on one person and it's not just because of modern times either because there's a lot of examples in literature um uh like Dante and Beatrice and Heath Cliff and Kathy maybe mutually lirant at different”
Chris Williamson — 1 mention
“what it's like to be a human by reading Wuthering Heights or something then you do by looking at Neuroscience journals”
Thomas Chatterton Williams — 1 mention
“And it's very difficult for me to see, even as somebody who was coming from a house full of books, it was difficult for me to see why at that age I was reading Wuthering Heights, for example.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Second one was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Then Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald...”