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...facts of Sylvia Plath's life are better known, but the story that lies behind them is no less mysterious. She met Ted Hughes at a party at Cambridge University in 1956. He was 25 and craggily handsome. She was 23, bright, pretty and vivacious--the word is hard to avoid with Plath. Both were aspiring poets. But Plath's gleaming American smile hid dark, ravenous appetites--for food, for fame, for love, for sex. It also hid gulfs of despair; three years earlier, she had attempted suicide...
...Plath and Hughes were wed just four months after they met, and the marriage burned fast and hot. Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband (Viking; 361 pages) takes us inside the tight, intense feedback loop of two obsessive, competitive writers who read and critiqued each other's work fresh from the typewriter. In time, the intensity turned claustrophobic for Hughes. He began an affair with another woman, and the couple separated. But in the agonizing aftermath of their marriage, Plath found a new and devastatingly powerful voice, the voice of "Lady Lazarus," "Daddy" and the other towering, terrifying poems that would...
What ever happened to choosing the candidate best qualified to manage a state or a nation? With more than 130 candidates running, who does TIME put on its cover but the most famous California gubernatorial wannabe? Shame on you for helping to feed the misguided culture of celebrity. JAMES PLATH Bloomington...
...beloved American poet Sylvia Plath COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1963 after her husband Ted Hughes left her for another woman. What better way to commemorate this tragedy than by cashing in with a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow? But Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes is outraged by the film, Ted and Sylvia. She has refused to allow the movie to quote from Plath's poetry, and she has written a poem of her own about it: "The peanut eaters, entertained/At my mother's death, will go home,/Each carrying their memory of her,/Lifeless--a souvenir./Maybe they'll buy the video...
...other Andrea Sachs, I must admit that it's hard to work up much sympathy for her. After all, having a vantage point at the top of fashion publishing by age 23 ain't so bad. How else can you get a book contract at 24? Sylvia Plath wrote the great Conde Nast novel, The Bell Jar, in 1963, and her crown is secure. Lighten up, and enjoy the show on the runway. And please don't confuse me with any loose-lipped assistants...