Gill Hornby
All Hellbent on their Own Destruction
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
By Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The American poet Anne Sexton – celebrated, like the other American poet Sylvia Plath, for her suicide – once burned her finger a teensy little bit at a dinner party, while she was striking a match. The incident is recalled here by a fellow dinner guest:
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