On the cult of Plath
“I’ve always found the Sylvia Plath worship creepy, and now the friends of her recently deceased son Nicholas do, too.”
“I’ve always found the Sylvia Plath worship creepy, and now the friends of her recently deceased son Nicholas do, too.”
Hilary Mantel reads Marilyn French’s four-volume history of women, and finds that the very imprecision some say enhances her fiction, here “makes muddles.”
Derek Weiler, the 40-year-old editor of Canada’s Quill & Quire, died very suddenly over the weekend. Bookninja points to a Facebook tribute.
Today Amazon apologizes for its “ham-fisted cataloging error.” (For backstory, see 1, 2, 3 & 4.)
Blake Wilson’s admiring post about The Second Pass highlights a Backlist feature I missed, on Eve’s Hollywood.