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Links, reviews, etc. - Week ending 19 April 2008

It was a difficult week for Wim Van Mierlo's Sylvia Plath / Ted Hughes Chronology. Amazon.com flip-flopped all week between expecting the book to be in stock within a month and 'not in stock'. The book disappeared from the Palgrave website, too. Mysterious...

Carol Bere's review of Anita Helle's The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath is online at the website of Cercles.

Sylvia Plath 75 Year Symposium participant Georgiana Banita recently published the following article:
“‘The Same, Identical Woman’: Sylvia Plath in the Media.” M/MLA Journal, Special Issue High & Low Culture. Ed. Kevin J.H. Dettmar. 40.2 (Fall 2007): 38-60.

T-minus one week until they Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at Smith College.
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  1. Wim Van Mierlo24 April, 2008 11:33

    There has been some delay in getting the Plath/Hughes Chronology ready, so Amazon must not have known what was happening. I expect that I will complete the volume this summer, so if things move quickly after that, the book should be out before the end of the year. No doubt Palgrave will have a new publication date on their site soon. Wim Van Mierlo

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