From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a motherThey say nothing prepares you. Before having my baby, I approached the literature of motherhood as though I were about to sit an exam. If my studies tempered the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-20 11:00:01 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.’ This line is a quotation from one of the most disturbing short stories of the entire twentieth century; but what does it mean? Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’, published in the New Yorker in 1948, has been read […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-04-25 17:00:58 UTC ]
Two previously unseen short stories by Jackson, rated by Stephen King as one of the great horror fiction writers, are to appear in US magazine the StrandTwo previously unpublished short stories by Shirley Jackson, the queen of gothic fiction, have been released.Charlie Roberts and Only Stand and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-06-09 14:05:30 UTC ]
“The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries” and “When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson” are among some great new terrifically terrifying reads Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
“The Way Inn,” “The Terror,” “The Deep” and pretty much anything by Shirley Jackson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-10-19 15:34:52 UTC ]
As recently as six years ago, when the Library of America released a collection of Shirley Jackson’s writings, her legacy was uncertain. “Shirley Jackson?” Newsweek critic Malcolm Jones wrote. “A writer mostly famous for one short story, ‘The Lottery.’ Is LOA about to jump the shark?” True, no... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Including: she wrote "The Lottery" in a single morning, didn't believe in ghosts, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among all the charming stories in Shirley Jackson’s two charming midcentury memoirs of raising four charming children in the charming town of Bennington, Vermont, the one that I urge anyone who might ever want to write about his family to study like the Talmud is about a boy called Charles.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a recent survey by industry newsletter Shelf Awareness, the novel 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' by Shirley Jackson was booksellers' top pick for a great spooky tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]