Lee Kravetz on THE LAST CONFESSIONS OF SYLVIA P.
\u201cThe thing that really sort of blew me away, one of the reasons why we have sort of the type of poetry that we have today and the type of literature that we have today \u2014 it bloomed and was, I think, seeded in some ways by Sylvia Plath and her experience.\u201d Lee Kravetz joins us on the show to talk about his unexpected and entertaining debut novel,\xa0The Last Confessions of Sylvia P., part literary mystery, part portrait of an immensely talented young woman and her impact on the world around her. Lee tells us about re-reading\xa0The Bell Jar,\xa0what he learned about poetry in order to write his new novel, the connection between confessional poetry of the 1960s and grunge music of the 1990s, the writers who\u2019ve influenced him, and much more.
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Featured books:
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.\xa0by Lee Kravetz
The Bell Jar\xa0by Sylvia Plath
Life Studies and For the Union\xa0Dead by Robert Lowell
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\xa0by Michael Chabon
Wonder Boys\xa0by Michael Chabon
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