Shirley Jackson, anyone?
It’s not a come-back. It’s not a rediscovery. It is more like delayed appreciation. Suddenly the author Shirley Jackson is back in the media press. 60 years after she was first published, her more famous pieces were collected into a volume and published by The Library of America in 2010. Last year a collection of some of her short stories never before collected was published by two of her children under the title Let Me Tell You: new stories, essays, and other writings. Of this new collection, Library Journal says, “Remember the chilling excitement of reading Jackson’s The Lottery for …