"Sylvia Plath is the sort of writer for whom the idiom, ‘I’d read her grocery lists’ was conceived. On this point, however, she has an edge: You can, indeed, read her grocery lists. Plath’s journals, published posthumously, are filled with granular detail: Amidst dramatic entries on feminist doctrines and suicidal ideation, she penned shopping lists, recipes, and musings about what to bake for forthcoming dinner guests. ‘The prospect of continually eating cake and continually having more of it always appeals to the feminine-logic side of my nature,’ she mused in a 1954 entry—precisely the sort of intellectual mergance that characterizes her notebooks: Part philosophical inquiry, part cake. ...”
LitHub: The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius
The Atlantic: Why Sylvia Plath Still Haunts American Culture2008 February: Sylvia Plath, 2011 May: "Daddy" (Video), 2017 July: Ariel (1965), 2018 April: The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956, 2019 January: Against Completism: On Sylvia Plath’s New Short Story, 2021 June: The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, 2021 July: Sylvia Plath’s Tarot Cards, 2022 January: Foreword to Ariel: The Restored Edition written by Frieda Hughes, 2022 March: Crossing Paths with the Spirit of Sylvia Plath – Helen Humphreys
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