Let me tell you new stories, essays, and other writings
"As we approach the centenary of [Jackson's] birth comes this ... compilation of fifty-six pieces--more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson's children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers paper's at the Library of Congress, select...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Let me tell you : |b new stories, essays, and other writings / |c Shirley Jackson ; edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt ; foreword by Ruth Franklin. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Random House, |c [2015] | |
| 300 | |a xxvii, 416 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Biographical note -- |t Foreword : "I think I know her " / |r by Ruth Franklin -- |t Sudden and unusual things have happened: unpublished and uncollected short fiction. |t Paranoia ; |t Still life with teapot and students ; |t The Arabian nights ; |t Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons ; |t It isn't the money I mind ; |t Company for dinner ; |t I cannot sing the old songs ; |t The new maid ; |t French is the mark of a lady ; |t Gaudeamus igitur ; |t The lie ; |t She says the damnedest things ; |t Remembrance of things past ; |t Let me tell you ; |t Bulletin ; |t Family treasures ; |t Showdown ; |t The trouble with my husband ; |t Six A.M. is the hour ; |t Root of evil ; |t The bridge game ; |t The man in the woods -- |t I would rather write than do anything else: essays and reviews. |t Autobiographical musings ; |t A garland of garlands ; |t Hex me, daddy, eight to the bar ; |t Clowns ; |t A vroom for Dr. Seuss ; |t Notes on an unfashionable novelist ; |t Private showing ; |t Good old house ; |t The play's the thing ; |t The ghosts of Loiret ; |t "Well?" -- |t When this war is over: early short stories. |t The sorcerer's apprentice ; |t Period piece ; |t 4-F party ; |t The paradise ; |t Homecoming ; |t Daughter, come home ; |t As high as the sky ; |t Murder on Miss Lederer's birthday -- |t Somehow things haven't turned out quite the way we expected: humor and family. |t Here I am, washing dishes again ; |t In praise of dinner table silence ; |t Questions I wish I'd never asked ; |t Mother, honestly! ; |t How to enjoy a family quarrel ; |t The pleasures and perils of dining out with children ; |t Out of the mouths of babes ; |t The real me ; |t On girls of thirteen ; |t What I want to know is, what do other people cook with? -- |t I'd like to see you get out of that sentence: lectures about the craft of writing. |t About the end of the world ; |t Memory and delusion ; |t On fans and fan mail ; |t How I write fiction ; |t Garlic in fiction -- |g Afterword. |
| 520 | |a "As we approach the centenary of [Jackson's] birth comes this ... compilation of fifty-six pieces--more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson's children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers paper's at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion"--Dust jacket flap. | ||
| 655 | 0 | 7 | |a Short stories. |2 lcgft |
| 655 | 7 | |a Essays. |2 lcgft | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Hyman, Laurence Jackson, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a DeWitt, Sarah Hyman, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Franklin, Ruth, |e author of foreword. | |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t Paranoia. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t Still life with teapot and students. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t Arabian nights. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t It isn't the money I mind. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t Company for dinner. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t I cannot sing the old songs. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t New maid. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t French is the mark of a lady. |
| 700 | 1 | 2 | |a Jackson, Shirley, |d 1916-1965. |t Gaudeamus Igitur. |
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