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A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The North American Psyche

Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" was controversial when it was published back in 1948. Am Holmes: I think that controversy really means hit a nerve. America was still at that point on the cusp of becoming big cities, but it was small towns. And part of the American dream or the American value system is the idea that in small towns, people take care of each other.

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