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Update: These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

Recently, Gail Crowther (website; twitter) and I submitted our final edits to the publisher Fonthill for our forthcoming book of essays These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Currently, we are reviewing page proofs. The timetable for the rest of the pre-publication process is unknown. But progress is being made which is wonderful! We were excited to learn, also, that listings for the book are now Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.

And, it gives us great pleasure here to post here the cover for our book:



The Amazon's seem to say that TGA will be published on 11 May 2017. However, the following press release indicates that the book will be published on 25 May 2017. Not sure at this point in time which is correct. All that does matter is that the book is coming out and that you are going to have your socks knocked off by the essays.



Writing this book was such a joy. From the start to (nearly at the) finish, I cannot express how thrilling each essay was to research and discuss and write. We were afforded the opportunity to revise each piece from their original appearances. We feel we greatly improved them (at the expense of some of our archival stories, sadly) for publication. At the same time, though, we were able to bring to your attention brand new archival discoveries and three new, original chapters.

All links accessed 25 January 2017.

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  1. Eva Stenskar02 February, 2017 05:34

    This is so exciting! Thank you so much Peter and Gail.

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  2. Anonymous04 February, 2017 17:09

    Congrats Peter. Are you going to be selling copies directly, or should we just order from Amazon?
    Richard Marsh

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  3. Peter K Steinberg04 February, 2017 18:32

    Thank you, Eva!

    Richard -- Thank you, too. I would advise buying it from Amazon. I'm not sure how me selling the books would even work. I'm going to try to do some readings or events in Mass., though.

    ~pks

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  4. A Piece of Plathery06 February, 2017 03:41

    HURRAH, so absolutely ordered :)

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  5. Peter K Steinberg08 February, 2017 11:45

    Plathery! So so so glad. I hope that you don't like it. I hope you love it. ~pks

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  6. Sarah-Jane Burton13 February, 2017 20:54

    Wonderful Peter! Pre-ordered on Amazon! Certain to be a great research for teaching and general Plath enjoyment :)

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