Seeing how most of what we flop down and flip through on television is pure candy for the mind, I started thinking hard about my favorite brain taffy, Grey’s Anatomy. If I’m so attached to this hour long show, what could I possibly be getting out of it besides pure entertainment? It wasn’t until after ...
Her husband. That is how the late poet Ted Hughes is best known today. Not as ‘s former poet laureate or as the author of such estimable collections as “Lupercal” or “Crow,” but as Sylvia Plath’s husband, whose infidelity helped spur her to grief and suicide, as the man who presided over her literary estate ...
I struggled to figure out what I was good at. This whole “area of expertise” thing had me thrown for a loop. It was actually very depressing, because I came to the sad conclusion that I really wasn’t good at anything. So I did what any upstanding 25 year-old in a jam would do: I ...
Sylvia Plath may be one of the most influential modern poets. Born in a middle class family in Boston in 1932, her parents were Otto and Aurelia Plath. Otto met Aurelia while teaching at Boston University and had an affair with her while still married to but separated from his previous wife. Sylvia was the ...
When the phrase “feminist movie” comes to mind, we usually think of titles like The Hours or Sylvia Plaith’s The Bell Jar ; heavy, intellectual movies that scream “feminist,” and are loved and sought out by feminists. However, some of the best feminist themes I’ve discovered on the silver screen are found in more mainstream ...
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