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Other Writing

The pram in the hall, TLS

In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet, New York Times

A Poet Among the Psychiatrists, Literary Review

The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar at 60, LitHub

I Wanted the Impossible, Poetry Foundation 

Good vile words, TLS

The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick, New York Times

A Survivor of a Suicide Attempt Writes of His State of ‘Eternal Dying’, New York Times

Life Among the Savages
The Letters of Shirley Jackson By Laurence Jackson Hyman
, Literary Review

‘Only Did What Poetry Told Us to Do:’ A Portrait of Sylvia Plath on Honeymoon With Ted Hughes, Time Magazine

On Sylvia Plath’s Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists’ Colony, LitHub
Two Lovers, Airmail

Read Heather Clark’s essays for the Harvard Review:

  • The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979
  • Sylvia Plath’s Ninth Kingdom
  • Selected Poems 1968–2014
  • The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956
  • Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
  • Secret Histories: On Shirley Jackson
  • The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems
  • Parallax: And Selected Poems
  • Plan B
  • Human Chain
  • Harvard Review 33

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