I thought
this story about Shirley Jackson was appropriate for the day before Hallowe’en
since she has a reputation as the Queen of Gothic Horror. But as this article from The Guardian argues, she is much more, having influenced American
fiction in many ways: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/22/shirley-jackson-america-queen-gothic-noir.
A new
biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather
Haunted Life, was released earlier this month, and earlier this week so was
a graphic novel version of her most famous short story illustrated by her
grandson, Miles Hyman: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery":
The Authorized Graphic Adaptation. Next year there will be a film of her book We Have Always Lived in the Castle.If it’s
been a while since you read “The Lottery,” you can hear it read on a podcast by
The New Yorker, the magazine which
first published the story in 1948. The
story has been described as “probably the most controversial story [the
magazine] has ever published.” Listen to it at http://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/a-m-homes-reads-shirley-jackson?mbid=social_twitter.
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