{"id":4315,"date":"2020-06-09T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:30:00","slug":"the-shirley-jackson-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Shirley Jackson Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a286f9eae62d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a286f9eae62d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#Shirley\" >Shirley<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#Hangsaman\" >Hangsaman<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#Life_Among_Savages\" >Life Among Savages<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#The_Lottery_and_Other_Stories\" >The Lottery and Other Stories<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#The_Haunting_of_Hill_House\" >The Haunting of Hill House<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#We_Have_Always_Lived_In_The_Castle\" >We Have Always Lived In The Castle<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#The_Birds_Nest\" >The Bird\u2019s Nest<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#The_Road_Through_The_Wall\" >The Road Through The Wall<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#A_Letter_to_Mrs_White\" >A Letter to Mrs. White<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-shirley-jackson-reading-list\/#Shirley_Jackson_A_Rather_Haunted_Life\" >Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Shirley Jackson Reading List<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em>This article is part of <strong>The Reading List<\/strong>, a monthly column in which we encourage you to take your enthusiasm for a particularly groovy film\u00a0and direct it into a wide array of extracurricular\u00a0studies.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p><strong> Shirley Jackson<\/strong> is a badass. Her novels, essays, short stories, letters, and probably even her grocery lists are brutal assaults upon the dimwitted, careless, and heartless. Jackson takes no shit and no prisoners. Her words erupt on the page, and you\u2019ll need more than sunglasses and SPF 100 to protect yourself from her blazing fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josephine Decker<\/strong> and <strong>Elisabeth Moss\u00a0<\/strong>agree. Their new film, <strong><em>Shirley<\/em><\/strong>, shines a spotlight on Jackson, celebrating the author in all her complicated, tortured, brilliant splendor. Their adaptation of Jackson\u2019s life is not interested in a birth-to-death narrative. No, it tackles a very specific time in the author\u2019s life after she\u2019s snatched some fame through the publication of her short story \u201c<strong>The Lottery<\/strong>.\u201d Jackson is contemplating her next novel when a pair of young lovers invade her home.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxMtEean_V8?feature=oembed\" title=\"SHIRLEY Trailer - Available Everywhere June 5\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Decker did with <em>Madeline\u2019s Madeline<\/em>, <em>Shirley<\/em> strives to understand the inner life of its characters, relishing in the intimate moments of our hero, and stirring a greater need to know more. Don\u2019t worry; we\u2019ve got you. Assembled below are not just the very best of Jackson\u2019s writings, but the novels and stories that will help you understand the author\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shirley\"><\/span>Shirley<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Susan Scarf Merrell<\/strong> wrote the 2014 novel from which the film sprang. Like the movie, it depicts the domestic war between Jackson and her snooty professor husband when two newlyweds share their residence for a semester. The book reads more like a thriller than the movie, at times attempting to replicate Jackson\u2019s mastery over gothic horror, but it feels lacking after experiencing the story first as a film. Merrell does solid work, but Moss boosts her character and writing. Give it a go, but you\u2019re here for Jackson, right?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hangsaman\"><\/span>Hangsaman<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>Hangsaman<\/em> is the novel Jackson is writing throughout <em>Shirley<\/em>. It\u2019s loosely inspired by the dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance of Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden on December 1, 1946. The title is a reference to a traditional folk ballad, \u201cThe Gallows Tree,\u201d which opens each stanza with \u201cSlack your rope, hangs a man! Slack it for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book follows a young woman who aches to flee her tyrannical father and the prison walls of their home. Unfortunately, the freedom that college offers her is not what she was hoping it to be. Jackson devilishly jumps back and forth between drama and satire, seemingly taking particular delight in the reader\u2019s emotional whiplash. When reality fails the protagonist, she dips deep into her imagination, but even there, corruption awaits.<\/p>\n<p>Most folks start on Jackson with <strong><em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em><\/strong> or \u201cThe Lottery\u201d (stay tuned), but <em>Hangsaman<\/em> offers everything promised in those stories with the bonus of not being as culturally dissected as the others. Those aren\u2019t papercuts on your fingertips; the novel bites.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Life_Among_Savages\"><\/span>Life Among Savages<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Jackson assembled a funky semi-fictionalized memoir by collecting various essays and short stories originally published in periodicals like <em>Good Housekeeping<\/em>, <em>Woman\u2019s Day<\/em>, and <em>Mademoiselle<\/em>. Published a year after <em>Hangsaman<\/em>, <strong><em>Life Among Savages<\/em><\/strong> is a viciously funny assault on domesticity. Tracking the life of a mother over the course of six years as more and more children come out of her body, the stories act as much as a celebration of family as they caution against it.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to most of Jackson\u2019s work, laughter, terror, and revulsion are all appropriate responses. The author would follow <em>Life Among Savages<\/em> with the equally compelling and grim comedy, <strong><em>Raising Demons<\/em><\/strong>. These books are a direct line into the joy and pain that fueled Jackson\u2019s work. Essential reading for those that discovered her through the usual high school curriculum.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Lottery_and_Other_Stories\"><\/span>The Lottery and Other Stories<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Speaking of the usual high school curriculum, most of you out there probably first experienced Jackson\u2019s talent through the title tale of <strong><em>The Lottery and Other Stories<\/em><\/strong>. If, for some miraculous reason, you managed to avoid \u201cThe Lottery\u201d during your education, now is the time to jam it into your eyeballs. It\u2019s the kind of story that rewires brains. Prepare yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lottery\u201d details the stoning ceremony committed every year as a means of maintaining the health and the growth of a small American town. Yes, Ari Aster certainly crossed paths with Jackson a few times before unleashing <em>Midsommar<\/em> upon the world. When the story first appeared in <em>The New Yorker<\/em> in 1948, the publication was inundated with furious letters of contempt. Jackson sliced into the dark current running through nationalism, and her surgery stung.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this collection is more than one short story. Containing twenty-five tales that range from the grotesque to the wry to the silly, <em>The Lottery and Other Stories<\/em> will keep you awake for several nights. Try to consume just one; I dare ya.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Haunting_of_Hill_House\"><\/span>The Haunting of Hill House<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Rediscovered recently, thanks to the Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, <strong><em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em><\/strong> may very well be Jackson\u2019s masterpiece. We\u2019ve been blessed by two righteous adaptations and one \u201990s embarrassment, but none of them quite captures the magic of Jackson\u2019s prose or the lingering dread of her narrative.<\/p>\n<p>A paranormal investigator invites several folks to spend the night in the supposedly haunted Hill House, but only three accept his offer. Eleanor is a shy mouse of a person due to her emotionally abusive relationship with her mother. Theodora is an out-going bohemian, eager to prove her worth in the face of any challenge. Luke plays host to the others as he expects to inherit Hill House come morning. They are alone within its walls, or so they hope.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em> is one of those books that stick to the walls of your brain. Scraping it off is impossible.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"We_Have_Always_Lived_In_The_Castle\"><\/span>We Have Always Lived In The Castle<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The 1962 mystery was Jackson\u2019s final novel. At merely 214 pages, <strong><em>We Have Always Lived In The Castle<\/em><\/strong> remains a sumptuous sit. The details are slow going, but unwind with lurid shock. It\u2019s the perfect follow-up to\u00a0<em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>. Home is where the heart is, and it pumps thick, rich, hateful blood.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Katherine \u201cMerricat\u201d Blackwood speaks to the reader. Six years prior, her family suffered a horrendous tragedy leaving her and her sister under the care of Uncle Julian. They are prisoners to their estate as the nearby village will have nothing to do with them. To tell you more would spoil the fun (and the horror), but know that <em>We Have Always Lived In The Castle<\/em> is a tremendous exercise in delivering dirt, and twisting the tabloid hunger of the reader upon itself. You could use a shower after this one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Birds_Nest\"><\/span>The Bird\u2019s Nest<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>The Bird\u2019s Nest<\/em> is another Jackson novel that traps you inside a mind caught in torment, but it does so in an utterly unique fashion. Elizabeth Richmond suffers from multiple personality disorder. You get to know her through each of the folks occupying her brain as each chapter rotates through their points of view. The experience is jarring, uncomfortable, and \u2014 like all Jackson tales \u2014 utterly enthralling.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Road_Through_The_Wall\"><\/span>The Road Through The Wall<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s first novel is an act of revenge against her parents, whom she deemed to be intolerant, greedy fiends. Set during the late 1930s amongst the falsely warm smiles of a middle-class California neighborhood, <em>The Road Through The Wall<\/em> attacks human hypocrisy, tearing into the dark ideals hidden beneath neighbors claiming geniality. Those who don\u2019t practice what they preach are the greatest demons of all.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Letter_to_Mrs_White\"><\/span>A Letter to Mrs. White<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Do you want to have a good time? You gotta read Shirley Jackson\u2019s splendid takedown of Mrs. White, who dared to write the author a letter criticizing her work. It\u2019s merely a one-sentence response, and it is less savage than you might expect, but deliciously on brand. In 2015, the letter got a viral boost, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shirley_Jackson_A_Rather_Haunted_Life\"><\/span>Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>For those still thirsting for more Shirley Jackson content, you should jump on <strong>Ruth Franklin<\/strong>\u2018s 2016 biography. It covers some of the same ground as <em>Shirley<\/em>, but in much, much more detail. Franklin makes it her mission to elevate Jackson\u2019s status within the Literati, placing her next to Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.<\/p>\n<p>After you\u2019ve devoured her bibliography, such big talk is hard to argue, but if you need further evidence, Franklin lays it out there for you. Also, Franklin uncovered loads of previously unpublished correspondence. Since you obviously enjoyed her response to Mrs. White, you\u2019re going to have a damn good time with the stockade of letters on display here.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/shirley-jackson-reading-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#The Shirley Jackson Reading List&#8221; This article is part of The Reading List, a monthly column in which we encourage you to take your enthusiasm for a particularly groovy film\u00a0and direct it into a wide array of extracurricular\u00a0studies. 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