IF YOU’VE BEEN tuned into the literary world — or BookTok, at least — you’ll know that books described as ‘sad girl literature’ have been breeding like bunnies in the last few years. Coincidentally, a ...
She's in her 20s or 30s, she hates her job, her love life is in disarray and she's self-absorbed yet beset by self-doubt. In other words, she's a hot mess — and she's the star of the 'sad girl novel', ...
In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness. I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending. ‘Sad’ feels overly ...
The kind of music you listen to can vary from day to day but there is one thing that is certain: Sometimes, a good "sad girl" tune really can make you feel seen. Part of the joy of finding the right ...
Every year, I make a pilgrimage to Sylvia Plath’s grave in Heptonstall with a close friend. We take pens to leave at her headstone and we sit in the grass and sometimes we write poems of our own.