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	Podcast:		Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
	Episode:		Extra: New York Icons: ‘The Bell Jar’
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:30:56
	Publish Date:		2019-10-29 10:00:00
	Description:		The Bell Jar is often read as a sort of literary suicide note by poet Sylvia Plath. The autobiographical novel memorably follows her first attempt at taking her own life and her experiences living in a mental institution and undergoing electroshock therapy, but its accounts of weeks spent in New York City preceding the breakdown provide a captivating picture, not just of Plath’s mental state, but of the impossible demands made of women in 1950s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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