Someone notify Elizabeth Wurtzel

Illustrated childhood letters, college paintings and photos by Sylvia Plath have been found and will be published in October, marking what would have been her 75th birthday. Plath was an art student while at Smith College -- before deciding to concentrate on literature, when she was 20.

The Bell Jar -- no, not The Bell Curve -- is also being adapted into a film -- again.

August 15, 2007 12:51 PM | Permalink

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THE REVIEWS:

Pat Barker, Frankenstein, Cass Sunstein on the internet, Samuel Johnson, Thrillers, Denis Johnson, Alan Furst, Caryl Phillips, Richard Flanagan, George Saunders, Michael Harvey, Larry McMurtry, Harry Potter and more ...

ESSAY:

Big D between the sheets -- Dallas in fiction

ESSAY:

Reviewing the state of reviewing

ESSAY:

9/11 as a novel: Why?

ESSAY:

How can critics say the things they do? And why does anyone pay attention? It's the issue of authority.

The disappearing book pages:

Papers are cutting book coverage for little reason

Thrillers and Lists:

Noir favorites, who makes the cut and why