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Links, reviews, etc. - Week ending 7 June 2008

The new book cover for Plath's Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams appeared on Amazon.com recently. It is a much nicer looking cover than their year 2000 offering. Y2K! This new re-issue of Johnny Panic is scheduled to be published on 12 August, along with a re-issue of The Collected Poems.

Faber re-issued The Colossus on 3 April 2008.

And, this is as good a time as any to re-list other 2008 publications.

We were teased and disappointed last year when Linda Wagner-Martin's Sylvia Plath's Poetry was listed but not released. This will be issued by Continuum International Publishing Group, hopefully, on 7 August.

Jo Gill is the editor of The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath; which is different than the Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath, which was published in 2005. If you do not have the Cambridge Companion please treat yourself; it is a wonderful collection of original essays by leading scholars. The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath is scheduled to be published in September 2008.

And, we'll have to wait until October for Raychel Haugrud Reiff's Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems (Writers and Their Works). This appears to be a "library book"; so please keep an eye out for it on WorldCat.

I apologize to those of you who clicked on the link to the Sylvia Plath materials at the Lilly Library and received an error page. The suffix changed from .html to .shtml. So, it is updated.

Happy Plathing.

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  1. erzsebet11 June, 2008 18:46

    Hello,

    Thanks for collating and posting all this wonderful Plath information! I've just visited the link to the Lilly Library. It is fascinating to "scroll through" the 150 or so books that are listed in the catalog as "Plath former owner."

    Happy Plathing to you, as well!

    - erzsebet

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