Lauren Groff, author most recently of the story collection “Florida,” sees Mr. Rochester as a villain: “He’s a sociopath who keeps his grieving wife locked in the attic and tries to gaslight poor, plain, abused Jane Eyre then marry her bigamously.”What books are on your nightstand? I do have an avalanche of books with a reading light sticking out of it. And your favorite book no one else has heard of? I read “Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, at least once a year because I want to curl up inside Eliot’s warm intelligence. My first semester in college, Toni Cade Bambara’s “Gorilla, My Love,” blew my mind.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2018 09:00 UTC