Return to The Classics: Emily Van Duyne talks LOVING SYLVIA PLATH

Wed Nov 05 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm UTC-05:00

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Return to The Classics: Emily Van Duyne talks LOVING SYLVIA PLATH
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Join B&N Philly for a discussion and signing with Emily Van Duyne on November 5th at 6pm as part of our Return to The Classics series!
About this Event

Join Emily Van Duyne and Barnes & Noble Philadelphia on Wednesday, November 5th at 6pm at Barnes & Noble Philadelphia (1708 Chestnut Street) for a discussion of , a nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.

She will be joined in conversation by .

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About Emily Van Duyne:

Emily Van Duyne is an associate professor at Stockton University and a 2022 Fulbright Scholar. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Harvard Review, and American Poetry Review. She lives in New Jersey.


About :Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination—the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. In LOVING SYLVIA PLATH Emily Van Duyne—a superfan and scholar—radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy. Drawing from decades of study on Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, the chief architect of Plath’s mythology; the life and tragic suicide of Assia Wevill, Hughes’s mistress; newly available archival materials; and a deep understanding of intimate partner violence, Van Duyne seeks to undo the silencing of Sylvia Plath and resuscitate her as the hardworking, brilliant writer she was.


About Nancy Reddy

Nancy Reddy is the author of , which the Washington Post called “a tender and moving case study of the effects that bad theories have when they breach the bounds of the clinic.” Her previous books include the poetry collection Pocket Universe and the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, which she co-edited with Emily Pérez. Her essays have appeared in Slate, Poets & Writers, Romper, The Millions, and elsewhere. She writes the newsletter Write More, Be Less Careful.


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