Ep 053 - The Yellow Wallpaper / The Lottery
Overdue
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The Reaction to Hate Mail
"It's about, it's about like conformity and how kind of stupid it can be," he says. "I feel like this is maybe a Twilight Zone template too ... take something about society and exaggerate it so much that it highlights the absurdity of the of whatever it is." The short story was published in 1948 during the height of the Cold War. Jackson never really wanted to discuss her work because she thought it should be self-evident.
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