Joyce Carol Oates is one of the folks who's published articles like kind of really praising her and trying to canonize her. Harold Bloom waged into apparently what Wikipedia calls the literary canon wars of the early 1990s because novels do what Nintendo get me, right? He published a book called the Western canon where he argues at any sort of like critical lens like feminism or Marxism or anything might like be against what any good work is about. And he lumped Shirley Jackson in there and said that her narration was kind of shallow and not worth the time.
Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle shares some qualities with her best-known short story The Lottery; both feature small New England towns that are the site of some unfortunate mob action. Join us for a conversation about non-supernatural creepiness, unreliable narrators, and early flights.
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