Burnt Diaries Author:Emma Tennant Burnt Diaries is Emma Tennant's third volume of memoirs, set mostly in the 1970s, during which time she founded and edited the avant-garde literary magazine Bananas. The endeavor to run a new literary magazine brought Tennant into contact with a range of notable and emerging artistic figures of the 1970s -- not only Angela Carter, who was commis... more »sioned to write The Company of Wolves for Bananas, and J. G. Ballard, who was supportive of the magazine from its inception and wrote a story for each issue, but also Bruce Chatwin, Philip Roth, Andy Warhol, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Alberto Moravia, and many others. Most compelling of all is Tennant's revelatory portrayal of Ted Hughes. In the shadow of Sylvia Plath, Tennant offers a portrait of him in that decade, the process of Plath becoming one of the women fascinated by his power and attraction, and the legacy of their involvement with each other.« less