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1 month, 1 week ago

Scientifically Speaking: When machines become poets

I want to start off this science column in a slightly different way this week, with a poem. Researchers Brian Porter and Edouard Machery from the University of Pittsburgh used AI to mimic Plath, William Shakespeare, and Walt Whitman, and other poets to test if people could tell the difference between poems written by people and those written by AI …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Shortlist for the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature Unveiled: A Glimpse into the World of Words

The Hindu

The Hindu on Books Newsletter announces the shortlist for the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature, featuring three translations from Bengali, Marathi and Malayalam. The shortlisted books include Sakshi Malik's memoir, Malavika Rajkotia's book on her father and Partition, Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden's novel and more.

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

A Tapestry of Sylvia Plath: Exploring Her Literary Legacy Through New Anthology

The Hindu

The interview focuses on the significance of The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath, a new anthology of Plath's prose works. The interviewer discusses the importance of considering Plath's writing across different formats and how her non-fiction and poetry can be appreciated on their own. The interviewer also explores the challenges and rewards of bringing unpublished works of an author to …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

The monstrous myths that have hijacked the genius life of Sylvia Plath

The Independent

It was Boris Pasternak, author of Dr Zhivago who sounded a sombre warning about what happens in the terrible event of someone taking their own life: “We have no conception of the inner torture which precedes suicide.” And in this latest book on Sylvia Plath, we have an original tale full of attitude whose origins must be traced to one …

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6 months ago

Book Review: ‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ attends to polarizing writer’s circumstances more than her work

Associated Press

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6 months, 1 week ago

10 books to add to your reading list in July

LA Times

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your July reading list. The Coin: A Novel By Yasmin Zaher Catapult: 240 pages, $27 Birkin-bag economics meets colorism and racism and feminism and more — it’s beyond intersectionality — in Zaher’s stunning and surreal debut novel of a young Palestinian woman who lives and …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Jordan Rapana scores two field goals to win golden point thriller for Raiders over Dolphins, Dragons power back to beat Panthers

ABC

Jordan Rapana has nailed two field goals to lead the Raiders to a dramatic 26-25 victory over the Dolphins in the second period of golden point in Redcliffe. Jordan Rapana nails two field goals to win golden point classic against Dolphins S By Simon Smale Jordan Rapana's final five minutes were really quite something. He has nailed two field goals, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

‘Another kind of violence’: ‘Molly,’ a memoir of a wife’s suicide, never blinks

LA Times

Review Molly By Blake Butler Archway: 320 pages, $18 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. I don’t know how else to tell it.” Three years later, Blake Butler is telling the story of Molly’s death and the 10 years they spent together in a terrifyingly …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There’s something apt about celebrating …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Reviving a novelist of monsters and men: Why Rachel Ingalls matters now

LA Times

On the Shelf Rachel Ingalls Novels, Reissued In the Act New Directions: 64 pages, $19 Binstead’s Safari New Directions: 224 pages, $16 Mrs. Caliban New Direction: 128 pages, $14 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In March 2019, New Directions reissued Rachel Ingalls’ out-of-print 1983 …

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1 year, 6 months ago

How Silicon Valley, Sylvia Plath and a killer work ethic inspired a novel like no other

LA Times

Sarah Rose Etter, who turned her stint in Silicon Valley into the surreal and open-hearted novel “Ripe,” recently moved to L.A. — and visited Eve Babitz’s resting place at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Etter’s second novel, “Ripe,” out this week, tells the story of Cassie, a young woman who works for a soulless tech startup and tries to ignore the suffering …

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1 year, 7 months ago

George A Magpie Memoir author on her parents Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

The Independent

In a moving interview with Independent TV, the poet and painter Frieda Hughes reveals how her adoption of a wild baby magpie became a lifeline as she struggled through the slow break-up of her marriage. In George: A Magpie Memoir she recounts a Born Free-like love affair with the wild bird she adopts in Wales, in its own way as …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Frieda Hughes on her famous literary family and her magpie memoir George

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I don’t want to move again, ever.” That absolute …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Sylvia Plath’s life should fascinate us far more than her death

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The peanut-crunching crowd / Shoves in to see / Them unwrap me hand and foot–– …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh

LA Times

On the Shelf Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan By Darryl Pinckney FSG: 432 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In 2019, the writer Saskia Hamilton published “The Dolphin Letters,” which chronicles the pain inflicted by Lowell …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Bill Nighy delights fans as he reads Sylvia Plath on the tube in viral TikTok

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Bill Nighy has gone viral on TikTok …

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2 years, 10 months ago

How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry

Salon

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath's private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the miscarriage of their child in February 1961. Heather Clark's recent biography of Plath, "Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath," includes this new information. But …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Sylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death?

BBC

Sylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death? Alamy There is a steady stream of biographical works about Sylvia Plath, including three notable releases in the last 18 months The impact of this interpretation's proliferation is to devalue women's engagements with Plath. Biographies often cite Plath's works as evidence for real-life events, and, as is the case …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Sylvia Plath’s passionate notes to Ted Hughes up for auction

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. All my love ever, your own love wife, Sylvia.” open image in gallery A 1961 …

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55 years ago

Heather Clark on her Sylvia Plath biography Red Comet.

Slate

On this week’s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with writer and poetry professor Heather Clark about her new Sylvia Plath biography, Red Comet. They discussed Clark’s extensive archival research for the book using never-before-accessed documents, the importance of correcting common misconceptions about Plath, and how Clark relates to Plath as a writer and a woman. Actually, through the course …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography

LA Times

On the Shelf Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath By Heather Clark Knopf: 1,152 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. With Heather Clark’s new biography, “Red Comet,” clocking in at more than 1,100 pages, the Plath cup runneth …

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4 years, 3 months ago

National Poetry Day: 28 of the most powerful poetry lines ever written

The Independent

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4 years, 8 months ago

Happy Mother’s Day 2020: Here are some poems to share with your mom this Mother’s Day

Hindustan Times

The second Sunday of May is celebrated as Mother’s Day in India, and this year it falls on May 10. From Sylvia Plath to Maya Angelou, here are excerpts from some of the most insightful and tear-jerking poems of all times to share with your mother this Mother’s Day 2020. Read on: From Sylvia Plath to Maya Angelou, here are …

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5 years, 2 months ago

Al Alvarez: Poet and editor who championed Larkin, Hughes and Plath

The Independent

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Scientifically Speaking: When machines become poets

Shortlist for the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature Unveiled: A Glimpse into the World of Words

A Tapestry of Sylvia Plath: Exploring Her Literary Legacy Through New Anthology

The monstrous myths that have hijacked the genius life of Sylvia Plath

Book Review: ‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ attends to polarizing writer’s circumstances more than her work

10 books to add to your reading list in July

Jordan Rapana scores two field goals to win golden point thriller for Raiders over Dolphins, Dragons power back to beat Panthers

‘Another kind of violence’: ‘Molly,’ a memoir of a wife’s suicide, never blinks

Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

Reviving a novelist of monsters and men: Why Rachel Ingalls matters now

How Silicon Valley, Sylvia Plath and a killer work ethic inspired a novel like no other

George A Magpie Memoir author on her parents Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

Frieda Hughes on her famous literary family and her magpie memoir George

Sylvia Plath’s life should fascinate us far more than her death

Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh

Bill Nighy delights fans as he reads Sylvia Plath on the tube in viral TikTok

How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry

Sylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death?

Sylvia Plath’s passionate notes to Ted Hughes up for auction

Heather Clark on her Sylvia Plath biography Red Comet.

Review: Think you know Sylvia Plath? Read this definitive new biography

National Poetry Day: 28 of the most powerful poetry lines ever written

Happy Mother’s Day 2020: Here are some poems to share with your mom this Mother’s Day

Al Alvarez: Poet and editor who championed Larkin, Hughes and Plath