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A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Lottery: A Woman's Story

The lottery is what we remember her for. Do you think it was the downfall of her career in a way to write a story this strong? I hope not. It's very hard today if you write something great early in your career, because if you don't match it again, you fall hard and fast. She wrote six novels, two memoirs, probably a hundred stories.

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