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Happy birthday to Sylvia Plath, and happy book birthday to Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark! Thanks to @netgalley for an advance copy for review. While I'm still in the process of reading this (2020, amiright), we stan a female authored biography, especially when it offers a fresh take on a someone whose work is often only examined through the lens of her suicide: "The goal, then, is to recover Sylvia Plath from cliché— to offer an alternative narrative to the Plath myth, to debunk the sensational and melodramatic rhetoric that surrounds her, and, finally, to examine her life through her commitment not to death, but to art." I'm really looking forward to finishing this book when I have a little more bandwidth to devote to it. #NonfictionNovember is almost here, and I think that will be the perfect time! via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CG2klJ2ABTf/