Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sylvia Plath

Join us at Womb House Books for a myth-busting Plath party with author Emily van Duyne in celebration of the paperback launch of the book and Sylvia Plath's birthday.

Ask her anything you've always wanted to know about Sylvia Plath but were afraid to ask. Questions can be anonymous, and we'll also be gathering questions online.

Tickets are available for $12, or entry is free with purchase of a copy of Loving Sylvia Plath or our "I Channeled Sylvia Plath's Spirit at Womb House Books" hat.

About Loving Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination—the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne—a superfan and scholar—radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy. Drawing from decades of study on Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, the chief architect of Plath’s mythology; the life and tragic suicide of Assia Wevill, Hughes’s mistress; newly available archival materials; and a deep understanding of intimate partner violence, Van Duyne seeks to undo the silencing of Sylvia Plath and resuscitate her as the hardworking, brilliant writer she was.

Emily Van Duyne is an associate professor at Stockton University and a 2022 Fulbright Scholar. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Harvard Review, and American Poetry Review. She lives in New Jersey.

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