Merricat's Castle 🏰

BSBookclub's readalong of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Oct 2026. BlueskyFeedCreator.com Info & Donate: https://blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/jedibyknight.com/Merricatscastle#donate

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Jesse Lansner

@jesse.lansner.com

3 days ago

“I have read ‘The Lottery’ three times with increasing shock and horror. . . . Cannot decide whether [Shirley Jackson] is a genius or a female and more subtle version of Orson Welles.” Isn't the latter option also a genius? 🏰

www.newyorker.com

“The Lottery” Letters

A torrent of mail arrived at The New Yorker in the wake of Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”—the most the magazine had ever received in response to a work of fiction.

Sara Habein

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3 days ago

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

Jedi M

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5 days ago

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