Sylvia Plath
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Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
… leaving her two sleeping children upstairs, their bedroom doors sealed, their windows wide open. With that act, Sylvia Plath achieved tragic icon status, an end that overshadows her work as a writer. But in this accessible, eye-opening …
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Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love
Cathleen Medwick reviews Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath 's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren and Eliat Negev for O, The Oprah Magazine.
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Sylvia Plath's Drawings and the Power of Diversions
Photo: Thinkstock As every young woman with literary ambitions and a moody bent well knows, Sylvia Plath was best known for novel The Bell Jar and her poetry, full of shivery, dark lines like, “Dying is an art, like everything …
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Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual
O, The Oprah Magazine reviews Eye Rhymes by Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley
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After Sylvia
… subsequent affair devastated Hughes's marriage to poet Sylvia Plath , hurling her into a depression that ended ultimately with her suicide. Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath 's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love, by Yehuda …
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9 Must-Read Books for June 2013
A century-spanning novel that makes a stop in World War I, gripping new fiction from Khaled Hosseini, revealing new details about Sylvia Plath and more.
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The Cure for Self-Consciousness at the Beach
… coverup. We found this unique gallery of literary bathing beauties , which includes everyone from blond-blond bombshell Sylvia Plath to the always-debonair Truman Capote (who appears to have accessorized his Speedo with a headband). Next time you …
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The O Wow! List: 15 Dreamers, Thinkers and Doers
… recent winner of a prestigious $10,000 Scholastic Art and Writing Award (previous winners: Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath , Truman Capote). Her background: Ford's family is known for its political prominence throughout Tennessee; her …
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Bright Spirit
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath 's Art of the Visual By Kathleen Connors ..... for a prize in the 1950s. But it is Sylvia Plath 's downhill slide, enacted in her ..... raging talent emerges in Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath 's Art of the Visual (Oxford …
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Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver
… Mary Oliver: Well, we went through a whole period of confessional poets. And I think a lot of people—certainly Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—got therapy mixed up with the work they were doing, and that's a shame. I may be wrong, but …
