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Booklady17 t1_itvwl3r wrote

Thank you both so much for doing this! I just wanted to say I LOVED Monster, She Wrote! I will be reading your new book too. I looked you both up on Goodreads. Could you tell me a little about your earlier book that focused on Shirley Jackson?

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Toil_AndTrouble OP t1_itvxdn2 wrote

Thank you so much for reading MSW! The book that we edited on Shirley Jackson is a collection of academic essays called Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences. It looks at not only what influenced her writing but also how her work influenced others. There's an essay that looks at FUN HOME as a queer Gothic text, for instance, and another that connects SJ to modern horror films like Stoker (which is so wonderful). That latter one is from the scholar Bernice Murphy, who does a lot of SJ scholarship. -LK

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