Sylvia Plath
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Episode 693: Emily Van Duyne!
Episode 693 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show, John and Rachael Tillman interview the scholar and poet Emily Van Duyne about Sylvia Plath’s legacy as discussed in her remarkable Continue reading
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Episode 685: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus and Other Poems (with Rachael Tillman)
On this week’s show, Rachael and John read the poems of Sylvia Plath’s first book, step 1 in trying to appreciate Sylvia Plath’s career as a poet and novelist as Plath herself experienced the creation and presentation of that work, not in the light of her mythology and hagiography. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Greg Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #92: Red Comet: Heather Clark’s The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Buzzed Books #92 by Jan Elizabeth Watson Heather Clark’s Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath at nineteen, smiling broadly, her face scrunched into what Ted Hughes once described as a “tight ball of joy.” It was the photo on The Bell Jar’s back cover that hooked me first. Below that, a paragraph-long bio Continue reading
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