Some links provided by the “Room for Debate” blogging section of The New York Times:
It has been 46 years since Sylvia Plath gassed herself to death in her kitchen, and it was worldwide news when her daughter Frieda Hughes announced that Plath’s 47-year-old son, Nicholas Hughes, a fisheries biologist in Alaska, killed himself last week.
Why, of all the stories of creative, brilliant people who have suffered from fatal depressions, does Plath’s tragic legacy resonate so widely? Here, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter D. Kramer, Erica Jong, Andrew Solomon and Elaine Showalter offer their thoughts.
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Wow, really?? That’s a bit freaky… Like mother like son I suppose.
I was reading this in the New York Times the other day, and I thought, “Mr. Quale’s got to be reading the same thing.”
P.S. Happy birthday to Maya Angelou.