Welcome back to Radio 831, where hosts Sanjana Basker and Tyler McCall make the case that yearning isn&rsquo;t just trending&mdash;it&rsquo;s a defining orientation toward life. Then they chat with author Betty Corrello to dig into what Wuthering Heights is actually doing in the canon: Is it a love story, is it camp, and what has romance inherited from Cathy and Heathcliff anyway? Plus: Sanjana gives Tyler her first homework assignment, Lisa Kleypas's Again the Magic, and Tyler comes back a changed woman. <ul> <li aria-level="1">On yearning: <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/2025-was-the-year-adults-started-yearning-like-teens.html">Allison P. Davis&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Year on Our Knees&rdquo; for The Cut</a>, the movie <a href="https://a24films.com/films/pillion">Pillion</a>, and the idea that lit-fic assumes everyone is cynical and jaded ℅ Mel Thomas (aka <a href="https://www.instagram.com/page.melt?igsh=amgzZnFteW53aWU2">@page.melt</a>).</li> <li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bettycorrello/"> Betty Corrello</a> is here to talk her favorite classic novel Wuthering Heights&mdash;the latest adaptation of which is <a href="https://www.hbomax.com/movies/wuthering-heights/a0e6f4e3-0462-4fef-88b5-ff68036d3998">now streaming on HBO</a>. Her last banger of a romance (written under BC Dolce) is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-italian-vampire-b-c-dolce/61e0bed35e572984?ean=9798218868314&next=t">My Italian Vampire</a>, and her next, out this October, is <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/back-for-seconds-betty-corrello/9fa6f439fdf06cbd?ean=9781464291623&next=t">Back for Seconds</a>.</li> <li aria-level="1">Sanj&rsquo;s backlist homework for Tyler:&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/again-the-magic-lisa-kleypas/161148ea76786521?ean=9798200973163&next=t">Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas</a>.</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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