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Sylvia Plath's Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom Event

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.

My thanks, too, to Carl Rollyson for coming. It was awesome to chat with a familiar face before the gig started and was wonderfully calming.

Look for the next blog post on Monday...another event!