The Bell Jar

The second volume of this landmark edition of Sylvia Plath’s correspondence. This selection of later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; starting a family; and buying a house. […]

Kate Zambrenos succéroman Green Girl [2014] har jämförts med moderna klassiker som Sylvia Plaths Glaskupan, Jean Rhys Godmorgon, midnatt! och Clarice Lispectors Stjärnans ögonblick

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a […]

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath’s correspondence, most of which has never before been published and is here presented unabridged, without revision, […]