Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings

Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.

Book 2015

"As we approach the centenary of [Jackson's] birth comes this astonishing 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.

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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965 Literary collections

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ISBN:

9780812997668

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxvii, 416 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Works. Selections (2015)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Biographical note
Foreword : "I think I know her" / Ruth Franklin
I. Sudden and unusual things have happened : unpublished and uncollected short fiction
Paranoia
Still life with teapot and students
The Arabian nights
Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons
It isn't the money I mind
Company for dinner
I cannot sing the old songs
The new maid
French is the mark of a lady
Gaudeamus Igitur --The lie
She says the damnedest things
Remembrance of things past
Let me tell you
Bulletin
Family treasures
Showdown
The trouble with my husband
Six A.M. is the hour
Root of evil
The bridge game
The man in the woods
II. I would rather write than do anything else : essays and reviews
Autobiographical musing
A garland of garlands
Hex me, Daddy, eight to the bar
Clowns
A vroom for Dr. Seuss
Notes on an unfashionable novelist
Private showing
Good old house
The play's the thing
The ghosts of Loiret
"Well?"
III. When this war is over : early short stories
The sorcerer's apprentice
Period piece
4-F party
The Paradise
Homecoming
Daughter, come home
As high as the sky
Murder on Miss Lederer's birthday
IV. Somehow things haven't turned out the way we expected : humor and family
Here I am, washing dishes again
In praise of dinner table silence
Questions I wish I'd never asked
Mother, honestly!
How to enjoy a family quarrel
The pleasures and perils of dining out with children
Out of the mouths of babes
The real me
On girls of thirteen
What I want to know is, what do other people cook with?
V. I'd like to see you get out of that sentence : lectures about the craft of writing
About the end of the world
Memory and delusion
ON fans and fan mail
How I write
Garlic in fiction

LCCN:

2014036656

Control Number:

2628104

Other Authors:

DeWitt, Sarah Hyman, editor
Hyman, Laurence Jackson, editor

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