August 26, 2014
Sixty-one years ago today, during the summer of 1953, Plath was found after attempting suicide for the first time. And it was shaping up to be such a good year ….
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Sixty-one years ago today, during the summer of 1953, Plath was found after attempting suicide for the first time. And it was shaping up to be such a good year ….
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Read MoreWhile mental illness isn’t a prerequisite for producing great art, some evidence suggests that there may be a connection between it and creativity.
Read MoreEveryone gets rejected at some time or another, but you can always take solace in knowing that you’re in good company.
Read MoreLearn just how close the reaper came to taking literary classics like To the Lighthouse, The Bell Jar, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and more.
Read MoreCan you tell which of these quotes are the last lines of a story and which were the dying words of a celebrity?
Read MoreEveryone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?
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