Reading Wednesday
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gwynnegaWhat did you just finish reading?
Carl Rollyson's American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath. An excellent Plath biography. The chapter that details Plath publishing in the years following her death (including Olwyn Hughes's reign of terror over Plath biographers) is worth the price of admission.
What are you reading now?
Seanan McGuire's Midnight Blue-Light Special. I enjoyed Discount Armageddon, the first book in this series, but I'm finding this one even more page-turny and awesome.
The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho by Eloise Klein Healy. (I studied with Eloise at Antioch--she founded the MFA program--and she's the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles.) It occurs to me that many of my poet friends would like her work, especially this book and Artemis in Echo Park.
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev. I wasn't ready to take a crack at this book until now, but American Isis made me curious to learn more about Assia (whose involvement with Ted Hughes broke up his marriage to Plath, and who later also killed herself). So far in the book I've read about her childhood in pre-WWII Berlin and in Tel Aviv. Her father was Jewish, which sheds some possible interesting light on Plath's references to Jews in "Daddy" etc.
What do you expect to read next?
Oh, who knows? I'm usually wrong about this! I did just get the NYRB reprint of Renata Adler's Speedboat, but there are tons of other things I want to read as well...
Carl Rollyson's American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath. An excellent Plath biography. The chapter that details Plath publishing in the years following her death (including Olwyn Hughes's reign of terror over Plath biographers) is worth the price of admission.
What are you reading now?
Seanan McGuire's Midnight Blue-Light Special. I enjoyed Discount Armageddon, the first book in this series, but I'm finding this one even more page-turny and awesome.
The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho by Eloise Klein Healy. (I studied with Eloise at Antioch--she founded the MFA program--and she's the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles.) It occurs to me that many of my poet friends would like her work, especially this book and Artemis in Echo Park.
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev. I wasn't ready to take a crack at this book until now, but American Isis made me curious to learn more about Assia (whose involvement with Ted Hughes broke up his marriage to Plath, and who later also killed herself). So far in the book I've read about her childhood in pre-WWII Berlin and in Tel Aviv. Her father was Jewish, which sheds some possible interesting light on Plath's references to Jews in "Daddy" etc.
What do you expect to read next?
Oh, who knows? I'm usually wrong about this! I did just get the NYRB reprint of Renata Adler's Speedboat, but there are tons of other things I want to read as well...
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Date: 2013-03-29 12:49 am (UTC)I'm also adding American Isis to the list- which you are not helping to make shorter. ;-)