{"product_id":"let-me-tell-you-new-stories-essays-and-other-writings-9780812997668","title":"Let Me Tell You: New Stories  Essays  and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR  From the renowned author of The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House  a spectacular new volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories  essays  and other writings.  Features Family Treasures  nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Short Story  Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965  her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted.  As we approach the centenary of her birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six piecesmore than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jacksons children co-edited this volume  culling through the vast archives of their mothers papers at the Library of Congress  selecting only the very best for inclusion.  Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for  along with frank  inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays about her large  boisterous family; and whimsical drawings. Jacksons landscape here is most frequently domestic: dinner parties and bridge  household budgets and homeward-bound commutes  childrens games and neighborly gossip. But this familiar setting is also her most subversive: She wields humor  terror  and the uncanny to explore the real challenges of marriage  parenting  and communitythe pressure of social norms  the veins of distrust in love  the constant lack of time and space.  For the first time  this collection showcases Shirley Jacksons radically different modes of writing side by side. Together they show her to be a magnificent storyteller  a sharp  sly humorist  and a powerful feminist.  This volume includes a Foreword by the celebrated literary critic and Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin.  Praise for Let Me Tell You  Stunning.O: The Oprah Magazine  Let us nowat lastcelebrate dangerous women writers: how cheering to see justice done with this collection of Shirley Jacksons heretofore unpublished worksuniquely unsettling stories and ruthlessly barbed essays on domestic life.Vanity Fair  Feels like an uncanny dollhouse: Everything perfectly rendered  but something deliciously not quite right.NPR  There are . . . times in reading Jacksons accounts of desperate women in their thirties slowly going crazy that she seems an American Jean Rhys  other times when she rivals even Flannery OConnor in her cool depictions of inhumanity and insidious cruelty  and still others when she matches Philip K. Dick at his most hallucinatory. At her best  though  shes just incomparable.The Washington Post  Offers insights into the vagaries of Jacksons mind  which was ruminant and generous  accommodating such diverse figures as Dr. Seuss and Samuel Richardson.The New York Times Book Review  The best pieces clutch your throat  gently at first  and then with growing strength. . . . The whole collection has a timelessness.The Boston Globe  Jacksons writing  both fiction and nonfiction  has such enduring powershe brings out the darkness in life  the poltergeists shut into everyones basement  and offers them up  bringing wit and even joy to the examination.USA Today  The closest we can get to sitting down and having a conversation with . . . one of the most original voices of her generation.The Huffington Post\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647496282165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812997662","price":20.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812997668.jpg?v=1781692564","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/let-me-tell-you-new-stories-essays-and-other-writings-9780812997668","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}