Loving Sylvia Plath

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March 6 Event: The Troubling Graves of Sylvia Plath & Assia Wevill
The resting places of Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill have historically been anything but. Plath’s grave, despite existing in a place of extraordinary…
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"Life begins at 30."
In Memoriam
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January 2022
What does it matter if a book gets written?
Notes from isolation
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December 2021
Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Sylvia Plath (but were afraid to ask)
An Interview with Plath scholar Maeve O'Brien
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The Trouble-Making Mothers
[Image description: A young Joan Didion sits with her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, on her lap. Didion’s hand is in her daughter’s hair.] Toward the end…
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We Need To Talk About That Episode of Dickinson With Sylvia Plath
[Image description: A top-bottom meme-formatted image shows two shots from last night’s episode of Dickinson. The top features Sylvia Plath (Chloe…
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October 2021
June 2021
Farewell to Janet Malcolm
In the spring of 2001, I was a junior at Emerson College and working at Brookline Booksmith, the landmark indie bookstore on Harvard St. I had terrible…
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Hauntings
[Image description: A young Sylvia Plath holds a dandelion in a deck chair, smiling, in profile. She wears a white top with a red flower tucked into its…
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The Rosenstein Papers
This month, I’ll be teaching a four week course on the Harriet Rosenstein papers, as part of Stockton University’s Institute for Lifelong Learning. The…
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May 2021
What We Get Wrong About Sylvia Plath
Tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST
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