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Experience plus magic equals fiction
Was Shirley Jackson a witch?
In the years since Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life was first published, it’s probably the question I’ve been asked most. Jackson’s reputation for having some kind of occult powers was one of the first th...
Learning to love “Huck Finn”
My piece about how to teach Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in the works for the better part of two years, is now out in the New York Times Magazine. (It went online earlier this week and will be in print next weekend.) While p...
The archive that burned
I’m bowled over by all the love for my previous post about finding a stack of Shirley Jackson’s letters in an abandoned barn—my greatest coup while researching my biography of Jackson. If you haven’t read it yet, here it is.
But not all ar...
Making your own luck
One afternoon while I was working in Shirley Jackson’s archive at the Library of Congress, I came upon a folder of letters from a woman named Jeanne Beatty. I had flipped past it before—the name didn’t ring any bells—but that day, something...
Write like a mother
I was playing on the floor with my 10-month-old one afternoon when my editor at The New Yorker called. One of my first freelance pieces for the magazine was in the late stages of the production process, and I was both eager to appear profes...
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I'm a book critic and the author of THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK and SHIRLEY JACKSON: A RATHER HAUNTED LIFE. I write about books, biography, and writing.
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