Sylvia Plath Info: Reading Dates for Carl Rollyson's American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath

01 January 2013

Reading Dates for Carl Rollyson's American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath

Happy New Year.

Did you miss me as much as I missed you?

Carl Rollyson, author of the forthcoming biography American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath (St. Martin's Press, 2013), will be reading from his book in various US cities. The list so far includes: (updated 16 January 2013)

January 25, 2013: 92nd Street Y, Tribeca Lecture Hall, New York, New York: 12 Noon

February 6: Left Bank Books, St. Louis, Missouri

February 15: Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, Massachusetts

February 28: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

March 21: A Room of One's Own, Madison, Wisconsin

March 26: Boulder Book Store, Boulder, Colorado

March 27: Tattered Cover, Denver, Colorado

As it is winter, please check with book stores to verify dates and times as weather related delays are always a possibility. I plan to attend the Cambridge, Mass. reading. I will plan on 1 February and 1 March to re-post this information with new dates added if there are any. Should any events in January crop up, I will endeavor to give as much notice as I can.

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath has had four early reviews in Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, and Library Journal. Expect more reviews around the official publication date of 29 January 2013. The book will be available in a Kindle edition, as well as in regular hardback by You can watch a promotional trailer for the book here on YouTube.

4 comments:

Julia Gordon-Bramer said...: And I'll be covering Carl's St. Louis reading. Happy New Year, everyone!; 01 January, 2013 10:58
Anonymous said...: Happy New Year, PKS! Thank you for this schedule.; 02 January, 2013 22:40
Peter K Steinberg said...: Anonymous: Happy New Year to you too!

Julia, Happy New Year, too. We look forward to your coverage!!

pks; 03 January, 2013 19:43
Carl Rollyson said...: American Isis will also be available as an audiobook on January 29.; 23 January, 2013 16:43

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Publications & Acknowledgements

BBC Four.A Poet's Guide to Britain: Sylvia Plath. London: BBC Four, 2009. (Acknowledged in)
Biography: Sylvia Plath. New York: A & E Television Networks, 2005. (Photographs used)
Connell, Elaine. Sylvia Plath: Killing the angel in the house. 2d ed. Hebden Bridge: Pennine Pens, 1998. (Acknowledged in)
Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives." Plath Profiles 2. Summer 2009: 183-208.
Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives, Redux." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 232-246.
Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 3." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 119-138.
Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 4: Looking for New England." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012: 11-56.
Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past." Plath Profiles 6. Summer 2013: 27-62.
Death Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets. New York: Poets.org. (Photographs used)
Doel, Irralie, Lena Friesen and Peter K. Steinberg. "An Unacknowledged Publication by Sylvia Plath." Notes & Queries 56:3. September 2009: 428-430.
Elements of Literature, Third Course. Austin, Tex. : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2009. (Photograph used)
Helle, Anita. "Lessons from the Archive: Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Memory". Feminist Studies 31:3. Fall 2005: 631-652.. (Acknowledged in)
Helle, Anita Plath. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. (Photographs used, acknowledged in)
Holden, Constance. "Sad Poets' Society." Science Magazine. 27 July 2008. (Photograph used)
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, Motion Picture. Directed by Rachel Talbot. Brookline (Mass.): Jewish Women's Archive, 2007. (Photograph used)
Plath, Sylvia, and Karen V. Kukil. 2000. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. New York: Anchor Books. (Acknowledged in)
Gill, Jo. "Sylvia Plath in the South West." University of Exeter Centre for South West Writing, 2008. (Photograph used)
Reiff, Raychel Haugrud. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems (Writers and Their Works). Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, 2008.. (Images provided)
Plath, Sylvia. Glassklokken. Oslo: De norske Bokklubbene, 2004. (Photograph used on cover)
Steinberg, Peter K. Sylvia Plath (Great Writers). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
Steinberg, Peter K. "'I Should Be Loving This': Sylvia Plath's 'The Perfect Place' and The Bell Jar." Plath Profiles 1. Summer 2008: 253-262.
Steinberg, Peter K. "'They Had to Call and Call': The Search for Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 106-132.
Steinberg, Peter K. "Sylvia Plath." The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath. London: British Library, 2010.
Steinberg, Peter K. "This is a Celebration: A Festschrift for The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3 Supplement. Fall 2010: 3-14.
Steinberg, Peter K. "Proof of Plath." Fine Books & Collections 9:2. Spring 2011: 11-12.
Steinberg, Peter K. "A Perfectly Beautiful Time: Sylvia Plath at Camp Helen Storrow." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 149-166.
Steinberg, Peter K. "Textual Variations in The Bell Jar Publications." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012.