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Instead of just filling you up with the details of what I've devoured this delicious month, I've decided to give you a menu from which you can make your own selections.
I can't tell you what foods you will encounter in each title, but rest assured that in every one of these works of horror, someone is eating...or being eaten. ;)
Feel free to add any tasting notes below! Shelley W.
And yet another surprise from Macmillan, this time from their Hill and Wang imprint: Hyman, Miles SHIRLEY JACKSON’S “THE LOTTERY” A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION Fiction , October 2016 (proposal available) Shirley Jackson’s short story THE LOTTERY is a classic of American literature that continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and […]
2 Comments on Wait…WHAT?! Shirley Jackson’s Graphic Short Story to Become a Graphic Novel, last added: 12/10/2015
If you want to read a short story almost as good as “The Lottery”, try “”One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts”.
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It's one thing to read about censorship in a news article; it's another to become aware of the threat at a nearby library or school. For Banned Books Week this year, we reviewed hundreds of documented appeals to remove materials from a local public library, school library, or course curriculum. Below are 30 books that [...]
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At Powell's, our book buyers select all the new books in our vast inventory. If we need a book recommendation, we turn to our team of resident experts. Need a gift idea for a fan of vampire novels? Looking for a guide that will best demonstrate how to knit argyle socks? Need a book for [...]
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I worry that I use too many exclamation points. I've read that they're like bullying. Still, I am listening to Shirley Jackson as I type these words. I must exclaim, because I am, you will recall, obsessed with her.
Oh, neat! I always loved it when, in high school English courses, we got to listen to the original scratchy recording of voices like T.S. Eliot and the like.
Have you ever written a scary story? In honor of the Halloween season, we are interviewing horror writers to learn about the craft of scaring readers. Recently, we spoke with author Jonathan Maberry.
Throughout Maberry’s career, he has won multiple Stoker Awards for his horror work. Last month, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers released the third installment of the Rot & Ruin series, Flesh & Bone.
He has written for Marvel Comics and published multiple novels for both adults and young-adults. As a nonfiction writer, Maberry has examined topics ranging from martial arts to zombie pop culture. Check out the highlights from our interview below…
This week for your listening pleasure, "The House Eaters" from my short story collection, The Saints are Dead. Now available in dead tree format (paperback) or e-book (Kindle) from Aqueous Press. This story has absolutely nothing to do with my YA novel of the same name. Lousy marketing on my part? I don't know.
But it is one of my favorite shorts and an homage to both Julio Cortazar and Shirley Jackson.
2 Comments on Saturday Podcast: "The House Eaters" (short story), last added: 5/29/2011
Wow, brilliant! I guess if they had taken anything from the home the nothingness might have come with them... or is it themselves that carry the House Eaters with them?
Nothing beats a Gothic tale read on a train rattling through the rain. Really great. I'm having a great trip back but am pretty tired out. I'm reading and sketching lost. Why do movies require more patience then books? It's always been that way with me. This is an incredible, breathtaking book, by the way. I want black paper as soon as I can get my hands on it, this cover rocks.
Really cool cover, book title noted, now let's say something encouraging... mmmh... hang in there, you're almost home w Julie and Henry! Like Jeanie, can't wait to see what it will inspire you to draw and big thumbs up on the thermos! :D
Though I have been to Bennington, Vermont a number of times in years past, and one of my sisters lived there for a little while, I cannot lay any claim to knowledge of Bennington College. To Vermonters of my tribe and era, Bennington College was...another world. Out of state. Beyond our grasp and understanding. We could not imagine the wealth or fathom the intellect.
If Shirley Jackson had not been connected with it, I would barely have known Bennington College existed. Because she was, I've paid attention to anything I've read about the place. For her sake.
Coincidently, today I had lunch with my mother-in-law who was a faculty wife during the same period (and beyond) as Jackson, though at much techier colleges. How did those women maintain their sanity?
4 Comments on Oh, My Gosh! Oh, My Gosh! I Am So Glad I Saw This!, last added: 3/25/2010
Oh, SNAP. Those were some awesome comments. Take that Joyce and the next time you mock people make sure they don't have anyone left alive to defend them.
Whether accurate or not, I thought that in many ways the essay portrayed a stereotypical movie/novel version of a sixties-era academic couple at a small, swanky college. It was the heartfelt comments that made this compelling reading.
Hmmm. The hardcopy edition of the WSJ with this article is probably still floating around and, of course, has none of the comments.
Merricat said Constance, would you like a cup of tea?
I always knew that I was missing something with all of Lemony Snicket's references to the Sugar Bowl. Here is is.
Fantastically wonderful and creepy, this is a character study into Mary Katherine Blackwood (not a reliable narrator) who, along with her sister and uncle, survived when someone in the family put arsenic and sugar bowl at dinner several years ago. Merricat had been sent to bed without dinner and Constance didn't take sugar on her blackberries. Uncle Julian also survived, but was now confined to a wheelchair and developed some mental issues as a result of the poisoning.
The Blackwoods live locked away in their house, hiding from the prying eyes of the townfolk who hate them. (Even though we get the sense the town was never fond of the family, living up on the hill with all their money and the murder that Constance was cleared of only adds fuel to that fire.)
Then their cousin shows up, trying to gain the Blackwood fortune, something the reader sees but poor Constance does not.
This is not a plot driven novel. The ending revelation was not a surprise, nor was it meant to be. This is rather the story of one messed up mind and how she sees the world. Part of the fun is discerning how much is real and how much is in her head.
Something happened to Melinda at the end-of-summer party and she called the cops. Now, everyone in her high school hates her. Melinda is fracturing as she fails classes (except art) and stops speaking.
I was worried about this because I *knew* what had happened at the party. I've known for awhile. I was worried that I wouldn't enjoy the book because the "big reveal" was ruined. So not true. I think even if you didn't know, Anderson has enough clues in the text that the reveal won't be a surprise.
Melinda's voice, the short paragraphs, how she sees the world, the style of occasionally putting conversation in script form sucked me in. It was everything I had hoped it could be, plus some.
I can't wait to read Wintergirls, which I think will appeal to me in a similar way.
1 Comments on Filling in the Gaps, last added: 6/1/2009
OMG, I am SOOOOO surprised to learn that this was your first trip through "Speak," and SOOO glad that it lived up to a decade of positive press & word of mouth for you. It's just that good ...
I'll be very eager to hear what you have to say about "Wintergirls." My blog post about it has been sitting in draft form for a couple of weeks now. I'll finish writing it soon enough. For me, the experience was an order of magnitude more intense than "Speak."
I've already told you the story about how I read The Lottery to my kids when they were little. Ah, memories like that make a person get all warm and fuzzy, don't they?
0 Comments on The Big Read IV as of 10/29/2008 7:11:00 PM
And yet another surprise from Macmillan, this time from their Hill and Wang imprint: Hyman, Miles SHIRLEY JACKSON’S “THE LOTTERY” A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION Fiction , October 2016 (proposal available) Shirley Jackson’s short story THE LOTTERY is a classic of American literature that continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and […]
Have you ever written a scary story? In honor of the Halloween season, we are interviewing horror writers to learn about the craft of scaring readers. Recently, we spoke with author Jonathan Maberry..jpeg?picon=3626)
If you want to read a short story almost as good as “The Lottery”, try “”One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts”.
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