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563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson)
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Nov 6, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Jacke talks to "serial biographer" Carl Rollyson (The Last Days of Sylvia Plath, The Life of William Faulkner) about his new book, Sylvia Plath: Day by Day: Volume 1: 1932-1955, which draws upon Plath's diaries and other writings to present Plath's life from her birth in Boston, through her elementary, high school, and college years, to her acceptance of admission at Cambridge University. PLUS Jacke takes a look at Emily Dickinson Poem #240 ("Bound a Trouble - and Lives will bear it").
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Released:
Nov 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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