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Sylvia Plath’s life should fascinate us far more than her death
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoState of the Arts: How do we fix the way we think about Sylvia Plath? Ninety years since her birth,...
Reading Sylvia Plath and my dead friend’s Instagram
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSylvia Plath Getty Images/Bettmann From the book "FIRST LOVE: Essays on Friendship" by Lilly Dancyger. Copyright © 2024 by Lilly Dancyger. Published by...
Dead Poets Live: Sylvia Plath, review - A refreshing look at the poet's exhuberant personality
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWhen Sylvia Plath was a teenager in Boston in the 1940s, she wrote herself a list of personal...
Opinion: A husband’s controversial remembrance of his wife left me with profound questions
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWho has the authority to write about the dead? Blake Butler’s controversial book ‘Molly’ (about his...
Taylor Swift Isn’t a Tortured Poet
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoESSAY When James Joyce was writing “Ulysses,” his 1922 modernist masterpiece, he is supposed to have declared, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles...
‘It’s really strange to be reminded of your perpetually dead parents’: Frieda Hughes on her famous...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoINTERVIEW: The first memoir from Frieda Hughes tells the story of George, the magpie she adopted....
Donna Ashworth: ‘I write for the masses – you can’t criticise me for that’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOn May 14 2020, several celebrities including Michael Sheen and Vicky McClure read a line each from...
'Another kind of violence': 'Molly,' a memoir of a wife's suicide, never blinks
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWhen a writer took her own life on March 8, 2020, at age 39, her husband tweeted into the void: “My partner Molly Brodak passed away yesterday. I don’t know how else to tell it.” Three years ...
Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the...