There's a British playwright named Sarah Kane who we will never read for the podcast. She is not like notable now because she died young and took her own life. One of her most famous plays is about, you know, really being inside of her head as it's kind of, as she's kind of losing grasp on things. It's maybe significant because of how close it gets to depression and suicidal thoughts and that kind of stuff. But yeah, like she, she burned her cell. Like she burned out. Yeah. That untimely death of artists as an unfortunate thing that creates a reason to go experience a piece of art.
This week we dive into Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, a quasi-autobiographical novel about womanhood, depression, and identity. We also discuss the unfortunate circumstances of Plath's early death, country mice moving to big cities, and metaphorical chemistry equipment.
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