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The Last Book I Loved: The Silent Woman
I had recently broken all of my wine glasses. I did not break them all at the same time. Some I broke while cleaning, and I was upset that I had managed to destroy something while trying to make it…
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Sylvia Plath Inspires Adoration, Scorn
Sylvia Plath has always been a polarizing figure, a fact underscored by the reaction to editions of her work recently released to mark fifty years since her death. Are her poems humorless or funny to the point of kitschiness? Was…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“Do not chew on the headphone cords!” — From @electriclit, passive aggressive library signs. Marc Jacobs is pissing off literary West Villagers by opening a book store. At The Guardian, Christine Granados has some fightin’ words for Cormac McCarthy and…