{"product_id":"let-me-tell-you-new-stories-essays-and-other-writings-paperback","title":"Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShirley Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLaurence Jackson Hyman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSarah Hyman DeWitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR -\u003c\/b\u003e From the renowned author of \"The Lottery\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House, \u003c\/i\u003e a spectacular volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures \"Family Treasures,\" nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Short Story\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As we approach the centenary of her birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six pieces--more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson's children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mother's papers at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic: dinner parties and bridge, household budgets and homeward-bound commutes, children's 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 community--the pressure of social norms, the veins of distrust in love, the constant lack of time and space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the first time, this collection showcases Shirley Jackson's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume includes a Foreword by the celebrated literary critic and Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stunning.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Let us now--at last--celebrate dangerous women writers: how cheering to see justice done with [this collection of] Shirley Jackson's heretofore unpublished works--uniquely unsettling stories and ruthlessly barbed essays on domestic life.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Feels like an uncanny dollhouse: Everything perfectly rendered, but something deliciously not quite right.\"\u003cb\u003e--NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"There are . . . times in reading [Jackson's] accounts of desperate women in their thirties slowly going crazy that she seems an American Jean Rhys, other times when she rivals even Flannery O'Connor 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, she's just incomparable.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Offers insights into the vagaries of [Jackson's] mind, which was ruminant and generous, accommodating such diverse figures as Dr. Seuss and Samuel Richardson.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best pieces clutch your throat, gently at first, and then with growing strength. . . . The whole collection has a timelessness.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Jackson's] writing, both fiction and nonfiction, has such enduring power--she brings out the darkness in life, the poltergeists shut into everyone's basement, and offers them up, bringing wit and even joy to the examination.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The closest we can get to sitting down and having a conversation with . . . one of the most original voices of her generation.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirley Jackson \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for \"The Lottery,\" which was published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ein 1948 and went on to become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature. She is the author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle;\u003c\/i\u003e four collections of short stories and essays, including \u003ci\u003eJust an Ordinary Day;\u003c\/i\u003e and two family memoirs, \u003ci\u003eLife Among the Savages \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRaising Demons\u003c\/i\u003e. For many years she lived in North Bennington, Vermont, with her husband, the renowned literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, and their four children. She died on August 8, 1965. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLaurence Jackson Hyman, \u003c\/b\u003ethe eldest child of Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman, has spent most of his professional life in publishing: as writer, photographer, editor, art director, and publisher. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of dozens of books and monographs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSarah Hyman DeWitt\u003c\/b\u003e is the third child of Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman. She is a performer, folksinger, and artist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRuth Franklin\u003c\/b\u003e is a book critic and the author of \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Darknesses, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. She has written for many publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e. 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