Alexis Soloski blogs on The Guardian's website about Sylvia Plath's "Three Women" and more in " What makes a play unstageable ?" Of course, I'm in the camp that views "Three Women" as a poem based on how Plath refers to it in Letters Home and how typescripts I've seen held in various archives call it "A Poem for Three Voices." Some of these are contemporary to its first radio broadcast in August 1962, too. But, I'm also open to it being produced and termed as a play, given the narrative structure.

Somehow I missed Alexis Soloski’s write up on the imminent Robert Shaw production of Sylvia Plath's “Three Women” at Manhattan’s 59E59 Theaters on the Sept.21st. While the article has been online for a few days, it just ran in Sunday's (Sept. 26) print edition, see page 7 in the AR section. Read the article here .

Lucas Myers’ new book An Essential Self: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath is now available for purchase via Inpress Books for immediate dispatch. Copies were featured for sale at the Ted Hughes Conference at Pembroke. You can order your copy here . Thanks to Ann Skea and Kim for letting us know about the titles early availability. (The Amazon’s (.com & .co.uk) still list a January 2011 publication date.)

Now that fall is here (Hello Fall), let’s take a brief look at what people in New York City have to look forward to this season. Broadway World has a preview of Robert Shaw’s production of Sylvia Plath’s “Three Women” . and Edward Anthony’s “Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath” starring Elisabeth Gray . New York Theater Guide has also written up “ Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath ”. I’ve recently had an email from Robert Shaw stating that rehearsals are underway in Manhattan with the cast starring Francis Benhamou, Angela Church, and Kina Bermudez. I’m told that the set will be slightly redesigned from the performances in Edinburgh (for any repeat attendees). Look for some media coverage around 3 October in the New York Times. You can find more information on “ Three Women here ” and on “Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath” here . And, don’t forget that Plath is being inducted into Poet’s Corner in New York’s own Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Read about it here . If you happen to live in England, y...

In this evenings program of Jeopardy, the following answer was worth $1200: Congratulations and thank you to Marisa, an archives assistant, for answering correctly! Marisa could buy a nice copy of The Bell Jar with that money!

Sylvia Plath features, briefly, on page 164 of Ian McEwan’s most recent novel Solar . McEwan locates one of the character’s flats “almost opposite the building where Sylvia Plath once put her head in the oven after setting out bread and milk for her sleeping children.” He continues, “The poet, a daughter of the fifties, was a diligent housewife who kept about her an unpoetically tidy domain...” Naturally my antennae paid quite close attention to this development in the novel. So, disappointed was I to read that the normally careful McEwan placed the flat in Primrose Hill at Fitzory Street. But that’s obviously not right at all! Fitzroy Street sits squarely in the middle of Fitzrovia, near Euston Station and the BT Tower. Not Primose Hill at all. For the paperback edition, please consider changing it to the correct name: Fitzroy Road. Also, see pages 122-126 for, perhaps, one of the most clearly written, evocative,exotic and mouth-watering descriptions of all time of what it is l...

Ted Hughes is in the news again, this time for letters that his sister Olwyn recently sold to the British Library, the BBC reports . While speaking at the Ted Hughes Conference at Pembroke College Cambridge, Helen Broderick, Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library, broke the news. The archive of 41 letters from Plath and Hughes compliments their existing Hughes acquisitions and holdings. They include some unpublished Hughes poems and a play; but from the BBC report it doesn't appear that any new Plath creative works are included (unless you count kindly sentiments for her sister-in-law). Missing from the BBC report, however, but included in others floating around the internet, is the following, "The literary drafts in the archive highlight the creative development of both poets and many of the drafts were later published in Lupercal and The Colossus in 1960 by Hughes and Plath respectively. " If I'm reading this right, there are drafts of Plath...