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“Like the girls and women of true crime, Plath is famously a victim—of an abusive husband, of a misogynist society, of her own brain chemistry.”
“Yet even in death, she couldn’t be silenced—her literary brilliance lived on in the novel I loved and in her confessional, often rage-filled poems.”
“When I lived in a suburb of Boston, I passed by McLean Hospital, where Plath was famously a patient, every day on my way to work.”
“She became an alluring symbol for me, the sad-girl literary equivalent of Jim Morrison, forever young and suffering for her art and feminism.”
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“Soon after this trip, Hughes himself, along with Seamus Heaney, appeared at my university to promote their poetry anthology, The School Bag .”
“Writing about a true crime writer required me to completely immerse myself in the genre, which I had long been fascinated with.”
“In college in the 90s, I (like many others) became seriously invested in the O.J.”
“This event is one of my earliest memories, since it was scary and the adults around me were all shocked by it in a way I had never experienced before.”
“This symposium should have been a non-stop thrill for someone like me, but I was surprised by how unsettled I felt.”
“Most importantly, as I wrote about the Plath-inspired character in my novel, “she had married the wrong man, which was how so many women’s lives took a turn toward tragedy.” While we can’t know whether the real Plath would have lived if she hadn’t married Ted Hughes, he has always been the main antagonist of her story, as villainous to any Plath fan as the rotten husbands we see most weeks on Dateline .”
“This is perhaps when I developed my tendency towards what I’ll call morbid curiosity —the desire to understand violent tragedies, an obsession with unsolved mysteries, the need to comprehend how human beings can do such terrible things.”
“Plath’s fans have always vilified Hughes, who mistreated his wife during her life and took ownership of her work in death, but my experience at the symposium revealed how we were also fighting for ownership of her.”
“This knowledge would shadow my experience of reading her work for the first time, and as tends to happen with Plath, her life and her work became inseparable.”
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