![]() ![]() I remember reading about the fatty processed meals she made every day, and the constant smoking. I’ve read a lot of Shirley Jackson, including the biography Private Demons, which posits Jackson as a person who struggled with mental health, affecting her writing, how she maintained her home, and possibly led to the general neglect of her children, though all of it was likely exacerbated by her husband’s obvious affairs and the restricted life of a woman in the 1940’s. Why publishers chose just seven stories, and just audio (no text copy) is unknown to me, but they are seven stories from the original collection, not newly released or undiscovered works. Instead of reading this longer collection, Biscuit and I picked up The Lottery and Seven Other Stories, which was published in 1998 first on cassette tape, and later in 2010 in digital audio format. ![]() Apparently, it was the only fiction collection published during her lifetime, and the book included 25 stories. In 1949 the short story collection titled The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson was published. ![]() What I’ve got for you today is less of a review and more a description of a book I read with Biscuit, and interesting connections we made. ![]()
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