Jessica Ferri
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Selected Work

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
The Los Angeles Times

Silences: Maggie Doherty's The Equivalents
The Los Angeles Times

Call it Love: On Queer Memoir
The Los Angeles Times 

Touching Sylvia Plath's Hair 
The Daily Beast 

Nothing Doing: On the Art of Procrastination
The Barnes and Noble Review 

Robert Caro: Turn Every Page
The Daily Beast 

The Neglected Penelope Mortimer 
The Daily Beast 




The Uncanny Suite
The Barnes and Noble Review ​

Sylvia Plath's Last Desperate Letters
The Daily Beast

Shirley Jackson, Breadwinner
The Billfold

Til Death Do Us Part: The Mausoleum of Mary Reed
The Lineup

Capote's Masterpiece 'In Cold Blood' Still Vivid at 50
The Daily Beast
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​Late Bloomers: Fitzgerald and Gardam
Literary Hub

The Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
The Daily Beast




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Bylines at The Daily Beast
Bylines at The Lineup
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Bylines at The Barnes and Noble Review
Bylines at Bustle 



Columns

Forgotten Treasures at The Daily Beast 

On the Road, Old Bean
The Letters of Nigel and Ben Nicolson


The Neglected Penelope Mortimer 

Growing up Bloomsbury
Angelica Garnett's Deceived with Kindness


The Daring Journalist Who Hasn't Lost Her Cred in a Century
Nelly Bly: Feminist Trailblazer


World War I's Lost Generation and Nazism
Richard Hughes' The Fox in the Attic





​Do You Like Scary Movies? at Shock Til You Drop
 

Pussy Stabs Back: On Slashers
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History Repeats Itself: On Pod People

Merry X-Mas: On Holiday Horror

My Body, My Choice: On Demonic Possession

Hell Hath No Fury: On Revenge

Stepford Whites: On Get Out and the Social Thriller

Creeping Death: On Stephen King Movies 

Saving Us from Ourselves: On Zombies 

Kissing Dead Girls at Bookslut

Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary
Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle

That Time of the Month 
Stephen King's Carrie

Congratulations! It's . . . the Devil.
Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby

Mommy Dearest
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The Angel in the House
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
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