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Stephen King, David Sedaris, Carmen Maria Machado and others on how Shirley Jackson’s eerie classic first got under their skin.
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Characterized by the caprice and fatalism of fairy tales, the fiction of Shirley Jackson exerts a mordant, hypnotic spell. No matter how many times one has read “The Lottery,” Jackson’s most anthologized story and one of the classic works of American gothic literature, one is never quite prepared for its slow-gathering momentum, the way in which what appears initially to be random and casual is revealed to be as inevitable as water circling a drain.
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In light of the 16 March 2017 announcement that Ruth Franklin's biography of author Shirley Jackson won 2016's National Book Critics Circle Award for that category of nonfiction, here's Joyce Carol Oates' review of the biography. Along with that book, Oates also considers a new anthology of Jackson's work and a graphic novel adaptation of her famous story, The Lottery.
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality * "This review of Shirley Jackson's new novel properly begins with
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