TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - DeWitt,Sarah Hyman
AU  - Franklin,Ruth
AU  - Hyman,Laurence Jackson
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
AU  - Jackson,Shirley
TI  - Let me tell you: new stories, essays, and other writings 
SN  - 0812997662
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Jackson, Shirley,
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Short stories
N1  - Biographical note --; Foreword : "I think I know her "; by Ruth Franklin --; Sudden and unusual things have happened: unpublished and uncollected short fiction; Paranoia; Still life with teapot and students; The Arabian nights; Mrs.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 --; I would rather write than do anything else: essays and reviews; Autobiographical musings; 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?" --; 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 --; Somehow things haven't turned out quite 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? --; 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 --; Afterword
N2  - "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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