It’s a dumpster fire of a day in all directions, and thus a weird time to share anything positive, but I have now turned in my contribution to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of #ShirleyJackson. So… woot! 
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“It’s all part of the same thing. It is Censorship or Repression, or Dictatorship, or Reaction, or whatever you want to call it. It is the stuff Fascism fattens on.”
- Shirley Jackson, while a student at Syracuse University in the 1939-1940 school year, writing in defense of #FreeSpeech on campus in the student-created magazine Spectre (quoted in Private Demons: The Life of #ShirleyJackson) #Relevant
“Lots of people thought it was a bad time to try to start anything new because there was so much that was more important going on outside. But we think that maybe the students have a little something to say about what’s going on and if the students have something to say any time is a good time to let them say it.”
- Shirley Jackson, when a student at Syracuse University in 1939, writing in the controversial student-created magazine Spectre (quoted in Private Demons: The Life of #ShirleyJackson) #Relevant #FreeSpeech
Yesterday was International Women's Rights Day.
To pursue, I suggest you discover, or rediscover, the works of Shirley Jackson, author known for her horror writings who took much of her inspiration from her housewife condition. One of her best-known works is ‘The Hauting of Hill House’.
I had the pleasure of illustrating one of her short stories : "The Mouse" for Le bélial in Bifrost #101, dedicated to the author.
Here’s a new book I’m looking forward to devouring with relish.
#ShirleyJackson #PatriciaHighsmith #LeighBrackett #Gender #Genre #AshleyLawson #Books #Bookstodon
ambiguous, porous, psychologically complex—the bird's nest left me with a deep sense of uncertainty. what was it about exactly—how unresolved trauma can lead to a crumbling of the self? or women's struggle for authenticity in a world where they're forced to compartmentalize the
"unfeminine" and unpalatable aspects of themselves? was it a darkly humorous jab at the idea of madness as a female malady or neuroses as a result of (primarily) bad mothering? a tongue-in-cheek critique of the field of psychology itself?
the beauty (and horror) of any shirley jackson work lies in the cavernous openings for interpretation she leaves; there's an uneasiness in choosing your own path through the narrative.
ultimately, the bird's nest isn't a new favorite jackson for me—there's an insufferable pov character whose chapters were a real chore to get through—but its cryptic nature primes it to be one of those stories that's even more fun to think about after you've finished reading it. and really, everything she wrote is well worth a read.
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#shirleyjackson #literature #literaryfiction #bookstagram #books #booklover #bookreview
"unfeminine" and unpalatable aspects of themselves? was it a darkly humorous jab at the idea of madness as a female malady or neuroses as a result of (primarily) bad mothering? a tongue-in-cheek critique of the field of psychology itself?
the beauty (and horror) of any shirley jackson work lies in the cavernous openings for interpretation she leaves; there's an uneasiness in choosing your own path through the narrative.
ultimately, the bird's nest isn't a new favorite jackson for me—there's an insufferable pov character whose chapters were a real chore to get through—but its cryptic nature primes it to be one of those stories that's even more fun to think about after you've finished reading it. and really, everything she wrote is well worth a read.
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#shirleyjackson #literature #literaryfiction #bookstagram #books #booklover #bookreview
I Waked One Morning From a Dream: What Is Gothic Literature?
There have been many nights when I’ve laid awake wondering: What makes a book Gothic? Who decides what is and isn’t Gothic fiction? And why, why, why do I keep reading them?
It’s time to reveal the truth about Gothic literature. Together, we’ll unravel the fragments, falsehoods and frame narratives to separate fact from fiction. Interrogate Gothic literature’s most renowned writers – including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. And find out why this obscure, 200-year-old genre is still haunting us today.
#18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCentury #AnnRadcliffe #AnneRice #BramStoker #Falsehood #Fragment #FrameNarrative #HoraceWalpole #MarkZDanielewski #MaryShelley #MatthewLewis #MaxBrooks #ShirleyJackson #StephenKing
https://gothicdispatch.com/what-is-gothic-literature-introductio/
