The Search for Sylvia Plath’s Obituary February 12, 2013: The Atlantic's Ashley Fetters went looking for an obituary for Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide 50 years ago this week, but was surprised to find... none. Fetters writes: At the time of her death by suicide—50 years ago, on February 11, 1963—she was a published novelist and an acclaimed poet; beyond that, she was also a [...] by Harriet Staff

“Skin” remixed in interactive, interpersonal literature March 9, 2011: Missed connection: 2,095 pieces of "Skin" have been seeking each other since 2003. Each has a single word tattooed on its body thanks to the writer Shelley Jackson who asked each "word" to volunteer as part of a human story which was never published in any other format. According to The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal: The pieces of it wandered [...] by Harriet Staff

Why writers won’t surrender to the electronic paper trail December 22, 2010: Besides reading James Somers' essay in The Atlantic, you can play back and review the entire process of writing it here. Long before word processors overwrote each step on the way to a final product, T.S. Eliot's meticulous "versioning" of "The Waste Land" allowed scholars to peer into the writer's process when all of the drafts, notes, and [...] by Harriet Staff