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June 26, 2013 | 3 books mentioned

After reading through two new biographies of Sylvia PlathAmerican Isis and Mad Girl’s Love SongTerry Castle concludes that “nothing about her life or legacy seems wholesome or resolved.” (Related: our own Hannah Gersen talking with Pain, Parties, Work author Elizabeth Winder.)

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