Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, And Other Writings

"“The Lottery” author Shirley Jackson died in 1965, so it’s surprising to see new, uncollected material still coming to light. Even more surprising: Much of this material is marvelous. It ranges from comic essays that reveal Jackson’s playful, even ridiculous side to powerful stories fit for the classics shelf. Let Me Tell You is unmistakably an attic-clearing anthology, packing together odds and sods like an unfinished character sketch and a Dr. Seuss review. But the best material is revelatory, revealing again how Jackson drew indelible characters with a few sparse words, then sent them off on wild adventures."