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A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Shirley Jackson's Fear of Death

"I don't think she's a bad person for offering her daughter up," he says of Shirley Jackson. "The whole thing is wrong, you know, that she's about to be stoned to death by her friends and family." The author also praises the work of Raymond Carver as an amazing writer.

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