Plath Journals: I Call Shenanigans

Right here, right now, I am calling bullshit on the Plath Journals.  I have been reading the unabridged version for about a year.  I can’t read it all at one time - it’s too much, too intense - so I dip in, read a few pages, let it marinate and collate with the other things [...]

Today In Plathian History

The Writer’s Almanac reminds us: 
On this day in 1956, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes met at a party in Cambridge, sparking one of the most famous literary marriages in history. 
 

The next morning she wrote about the encounter in her journal. She spent most of the evening talking to someone else, whom she described as “some ugly, gat-toothed [...]

Sylvia in The Wee Hours

I am writing, concentrated writing, words and words after midnight.  My method is unusual for writers, I think: I require noise to write.  Television, usually.   Sometimes traffic sounds, particularly in Boston or New York, or the static and lap-lap-lap of rolling waves, or music, if I can’t find a nook that makes organic sounds, I will [...]