Has anyone read The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman?

I started it and I'm not sure I want to finish, it's weird I don't like the main character very much but I don't think you are supposed to but I'm torn about wanting to see if she turns out better. I was wondering if I was the only one with that reaction.

I didn't know that about Hughes. I didn't know it about Kerouac, either, though.

I knew that about both of them but then, I'm a collector of odd facts.

Askye, I listened to it on CD, it gets more interesting as the story goes on, but I never really cared for the main character.

I've had a hard time with Alice Hoffman lately. Some of the new books I've loved, some I've just never gotten into.

Also, I now want to reread On the Road. And Sylvia Plath's journals.

Also, I now want to reread On the Road.

All you'll find is homophobia there. He kept it pretty deep in the closet. But it's a regular part of his letters. He famously had a hotel fling with Gore Vidal.

Vidal's come on line? "C'mon, Jack. Do it for literary history."

Queer Beats

Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex traces, for the first time, the queer pulse that throbs throughout the Beats’ writings—from William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch and Allen Ginsberg’s wistful, boy-loving sex poems to Jack Kerouac’s hero-worship of Neal Cassady—and Kerouac’s denial of having sex with men, despite erotic encounters with Ginsberg and Gore Vidal: "Posterity will laugh at me if it thinks I was queer."

I'd love to know if any hints of Hughes's bisexuality made it into the letters Plath's mother destroyed.

Ple, I'm not turning up a reference to Hughes' sexuality online. Was it in his letters or a bio?

Langston (sexy writer #5), not Ted. I failed to disambiguate the Hughes.

I just bought the new book by Audrey Niffenegger (author of Time Traveler's Wife). Definitely looking forward to reading it sometime before Halloween--fitting, since it is a ghost story.

Langston (sexy writer #5), not Ted. I failed to disambiguate the Hughes.

Oh! Oops.