Here are some links and citations that might make for interesting summer weekend reading... Helen Broderick at the British Library has a new post, "Poetry, Places and birthdays" about processing the Ted Hughes papers. Includes a nice, clickable image. Erikka Askeland reviews 'Three Women" at the Edinburgh Festival in the Scotsman . Susan Zelenka's "Why Sylvia Plath’s story pisses me off" reviews Paul Alexander's "Edge" from Studio @ 620 at in The Daily Loaf . Hey, don't forget, Sylvia Plath didn't actually say, "Not that I’m bitter. Not that I’m vengeful. Not that I’m a keeper of slights." Paul Alexander, speaking for Plath (which is problematic) says this. Not that I'm bitter. Not that I'm vengeful. Not that I'm a keeper of slights... Shelley Blanton-Stroud recommends "Five books for book clubs who love Mad Men's Don and Betty Draper". The third book is Ariel: The Restored Edition . (Don...

There is an exhibition on at the Tina Kim Gallery in New York City called I Stepped Into the Room . Plath fans will recognize this exhibition title as the final words of her novel, The Bell Jar . Words so meaningful, yet so open-ended. Anyway... The exhibition considers the intersection and interplay of the psychological and the spatial. For more, please see New York Art Beat . The exhibition closes on 12 September 2009. The Tina Kim Gallery is located at 545 W 25th St., 3 Fl., New York, NY 10001. Contact information. Phone: 212-716-1100 Fax: 212-716-1250

The British Library has been blogging about their recent Ted Hughes archive acquisition all year. Helen Broderick is the lucky archivist processing the collection, and she posts pretty regularly about her progress, findings, etc. Plath is mentioned in two posts. The posts are adorned with images throughout that are wonderful to see. As an archivist/librarian myself, I am envious of Ms. Broderick's experience and thankful to her and the British Library for this kind of attention.

Jefferson Barbour at the Examiner (writing from the Virginia Beach area) recently wrote on The Bell Jar . This seems as good a time as any to point out that Harper Perennial is reissuing The Bell Jar with yet another cover on 3 November 2009 . This is only listed on sites like Amazon and Borders that I could find, and not yet on Harper's website. Click here to see Sylvia Plath's pages on HarperCollins' website . This decade, The Bell Jar has been reissued in 2003, 2005, and 2006.

In November 2008 , I posted about the collection of Sylvia Plath typescripts ( link to library's finding aid ) held at the Sydney Jones Library at the University of Liverpool. The typescript for "The Rabbit Catcher" is particularly interesting as written adjacent to the first line - in Plath's hand - is the world Chevreau. Recently I learned that this is likely not referring to a young goat . Rather, it is referring to a person, Cecile Chevreau. I wonder if she kept young goats? Cecile Chevreau, along with Gary Watson and Alan Wheatley, read poems for the BBC Third Programme 'New Poems' broadcast on 16 September 1962 (at 18.40, or 6:40 p.m.). Other poets included in the broadcast were Zulfikar Ghose (a reviewer Plath's The Colossus ), John Lehmann (an editor at London Magazine ), Christopher Hampton, Jenny Joseph, John Knight, Michell Raper, Anthony Thwaite (amongst other things, a producer for BBC radio), and Terence Tiller. The poems by Plath inclu...

This August, director Robert Shaw's version of Sylvia Plath's "Three Women" will be on stage at the Edinburgh Festival . What you need to know: Where: Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2LR, Scotland Phone: 0131 623 3030 Website: Assembly Festival When: Thu 6th Aug - Mon 31st Aug Cast: Neve McIntosh, Louisa Clein, Lara Lemon Thanks to Jo Gill for bringing this to our attention. She and others discussed this on the BBC Radio 4 programme, Woman's Hour , on 30 July. Those in the UK may be able to listen to it...

One: If you are in the Northampton, Mass. area this summer and fall, you might want to stop by the William Alan Neilson Library to see their exhibit on Yaddo, " Unconquered by Flames: The Literary Lights at Yaddo ", curated by the amazing Karen V. Kukil . The exhibit opens in mid–August and continues through October. Two: If you are in St. Petersburg, Florida, you can see Paul Alexander's biased play Edge on stage at a theatre called The Studio@620. No longer starring Angelica Torn, this Edge stars Marcy J. Savasano. 620 First Ave. S., St. Petersburg, Florida When: August 6-9, 13-16, 2009, Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 7:00 pm, Sunday Matinees @ 1:00 pm Pricing: $30 front row seating, $25 general admission, $15 students and seniors, Phone:727-895-6620 Web: studio620.org