Plath

Clark, whose brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” was a Pulitzer finalist, uses her first novel to explore a highly literary and highly troubled relationship.

Her favorite activity when she was a teen was to sit by her bedroom window while listening to Simon & Garfunkel and reading Sylvia Plath.

I scanned the stacks of books teetering against one wall, not on shelves but layered like bricks, and a slim off-white spine called to me: Sylvia Plath’s "Ariel."

Instead, she suggested they should read Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir or Charlotte Bronte.

Something lighthearted and funny that will include Sylvia Plath and Louise Bourgeois.