Emily Van Duyne ( Twitter )—whose work on Sylvia Plath you should know ( LitHub , Electric Lit , The Smart Set , LitHub again , and LitHub a gain as well as a forthcoming review of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2 in the Harvard Review  and a monograph-in-progress on Plath entitled Loving Sylvia Plath )—invited me to give a talk on Sylvia Plath and the Letters at her university, Stockton University, in Galloway, New Jersey and it was an offer I could not refuse. So, this is a blog post to inform and invite anyone who is in the area to attend the talk which is open to the public. Time: 6 pm Date: 1 April 2019 Place: Campus Center Theater On that Monday before the talk I will be sitting on on two of Emily's classes to talk Plath. She is teaching the Beuscher letters and The Silent Woman as part of a comparative study. That afternoon, as well, I will sit in on a psychology class taught by Kaite Yang. On Tuesday, I look forward to sitting in on her colleague Thomas K...

Last evening was the a wonderful WSJPlus/HarperCollins event on Sylvia Plath's recently published short story Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom  at the showroom of MM.LaFleur on 42nd Street at Bryant Park. Manhattan is always a whirlwind experience--a hullabaloo, as Plath said. It was a terrifically Plathian day all around, receiving interesting emails from people and also getting the proofs of the paperback editions of both volumes of  The Letters of Sylvia Plath . When it rains, it Plaths. My thanks to Carla Zanoni for asking me to participate and for being a wonderful host and conversationalist. The room was full of people and I enjoyed the rapport, the questions and chatting, and in particular just seeing and reading the genuine interest in peoples faces. Here is a clip of Carla reading from the story. Feeling incredibly fortunate to discuss the work of #SylviaPlath with Peter K. Steinberg, aka @sylviaplathinfo , and @wsjplus members. Was full on in my elemen...

Faber and Faber has reissued Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy today. The book is 160 pages, the ISBN is 978-0-571-34851-0 and it retails for £9.99. Copies are available, as you might imagine,  from the publisher as well as from sites like Amazon.co.uk . All links accessed 6 March 2018.

In the United States, today marks the publication day of HarperCollins'  hardback edition of Sylvia Plath's short story Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom . Upon publication of the paperback in January, Parul Sehgal wrote in the New York Times : "[Plath's] story is stirring, in sneaky, unexpected ways…Look carefully and there's a new angle here — on how, and why, we read Plath today." The list price is $15.99. The ISBN is: 978-0-06-294085-8. The front of the jacket features the same image as the paperback and the back of the book quotes the estimable Andrew Wilson from when news of the story's publication broken in October 2018 . The book itself is in a beautiful blue cloth with gold spine lettering. Copies are available from HarperCollins (preferred), as well as via  Amazon.com . Event reminder: If you are a Wall Street Journal+ member, you can register to attend an event next Tuesday, 12 March, in Manhattan . All links accessed: 2...

On Tuesday 12 March 2019, I will be joining Carla Zanoni, an editor at the  Wall Street Journal, at an event discussing Sylvia Plath's short story "Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom", recently published by HarperCollins . We'll be discussing other Plathian things and themes, too. The event will be at the MM.LaFleur Bryant Park Showroom located at 130 W 42nd Street on the 13th Floor. It starts at 6 with registration and reception. The discussion and Q & A starts at 6:30 and a networking reception starts at 7:30. This is a neat opportunity and I am grateful to Carla Zanoni, Amber Burton, and Alix Milne for organizing the event as asking me to be there. I am terrifically excited to participate in this event. All links accessed 16 and 28 February 2019.