"The ambition that has driven her for years has, at the moment of its greatest necessity, suddenly abandoned her. When her editor at the magazine asks what she plans to do after graduation, she surprises herself by skipping her usual overrehearsed litany—professor, editor, author of books of poems—and telling the truth: ‘I don’t really know.’” Emily Gould on Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar • Poetry

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