Fun Fact: Did you know that Sylvia Plath uses the word "perched" seven times in  The Bell Jar? Right... There is some new work to promote that has come out in the last week by and on Sylvia Plath. The Hudson Review has published, in full, the text of Sylvia Plath's short story "Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom" in their Spring issue. It was the intention all along that the story appear in the Hudson before the decision was made by the Estate of Sylvia Plath and Faber to publish it in book form. I was asked by the Hudson to cheer lead their effort, which I was happy to do, to have the story appear first in their pages. I guess I did too good of a job? There is an essay by Karen V. Kukil on the story, too. Next, Marsha Bryant has recently published "Queen bees: Edith Sitwell, Sylvia Plath & cross-Atlantic affiliations" in Feminist Modernist Studies . The abstract reads, Drawing on the convergence of Edith Sitwell and Sylvia Pla...