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Hi guys,<br>My name is Sherry and I've joined
your club recently but I'm wondering why this club is
very quite! If there is any one who would like to
start the new subject to discuss please let other
members know! I'll be glad to hear from you guys
soon!<br>bye now

You could try auctioning the signed first edition
on one of the auction sites. I occasionally check
SJ's books on eBay and they go for good prices. You
just have to be 99.9% sure it is her signature before
you go auctioning it off as such to avoid legal
issues. I don't know how common signed first editions are
with her but I can't imagine she had major book
signings like modern authors today. Good luck!

I have a signed first edition of Life Among the Savages?  How infrequently did
Shirley Jackson sign her works, esp first editions?  Does anyone know who might
be interesetd in such a find?

Okay I fell asleep before I got to the end of his article, but it might help.
;)<br><br><a href=http://www.netwood.net/~kosenko/jackson.html
target=new>http://www.netwood.net/~kosenko/jackson.html</a><br><br>thistle

hehe sorry if i spelled that wrong... does anyone
know of any good websites that analyze the stories or
help to understand them?<br>dont get me wrong i think
they are marvelous... but u know an extra clue or too
is useful.<br>please email me at deedlebrd@...

Hi, i'm doing an english project on the lottery,
and i cant find any literary criticisms or the
protagonist, antagonist, and conflict. if anyone knows of any
sites that might be helpful or any info at all for any
of these things, please let me know. thanks a lot!

Ive read it over a dozen times. The only thing
that depressed me was the authors comments that
Shirleys weight loss after meeting Stanley was
"unfortunatly not to last". And Jacksons knowledge of fear and
evil goes hand in hand with her wit and humor - same
coin and all that. Just my opinion, of course...;)

Im up late discovering clubs to join....Shirley
Jackson!!! Did anyone out there know that Come Along With Me
was made into a movie starring Estelle Parsons? They
took every word and situation straight from the book -
verbatim! A first (and last I believe). Thanx for being
here.

Besides me? I grew up with Jackson's work (She's
one of my mother's favorites) and I never thought
about the juxtaposition of Raising Demons with Bird's
Nest. I just assumed Shirley was one of those rare
writers like Asimov or Steinbeck who can write about
anything. I "sped-red" through the biography one day at the
library and was depressed for a month. It is only logical
that people who write about evil and fear have a close
acquaintance with both but I'd never reasoned it out before.
Frankly, it was a long time before I could pick up her
work again.<br><br>How did everyone else react? I'm
curious.

I need help with a paper I have to write, it's on
Shirley's 'Bird Nest' and I have no idea what to write
about!! Does anyone have any ideas or anything about what
the main themes are, or what is a good topic for an
essay and how can I prove it??? If you have any ideas
e-mail me please!<br>Luv<br>Nat

Hi Marilyn,<br> No, I've never seen an SJ
T-Shirt. I live within an hour or so drive of N.
Bennington VT where she once lived and I've looked around up
there also and have never seen one. I will ask my
friend in NM who is also an SJ fan but not a member of
this club because she doesn't have internet service if
she's ever seen one. Keep your fingers crossed! Susan

Does anyone happen to know where to purchase<br>a Shirley Jackson t shirt of any
kind???<br>Marilyn Boyer

I looked everywhere for literary criticism on "Charles" and "What A
Thought"<br>PLEASE HELP!!!<br>If anyone can help please email me<br>at
robyn00@...<br>THANK YOU

I added some pictures of Shirley in the "photos" category.

Sorry to get back to you so late. "What a
Thought" is a short story, featured in the collection
"just an ordinary day". That's the best I can do. It's
about 5 pages long, and portrays a woman who is
contemplating braining her hubby with a glass ashtray.

Ok guys :) How is everyone? Well anywayz, like I
mentioned earlier, I need your help. Does anyone have a
copy of "what a thought" by shirley? If so, could u
e-mail me? My e-mail is short1_00@... Thanks
guys.....Shirley Jackson Rules....

"The whole world is divided into 3 parts."

can anyone tell me the translation of what is said in latin at the end of "the
intoxicated"?<br>"Gallia est omnia divisa in partes tres"

There is a great biography of Shirley called
"Private Demons" that you should read. She was born out
west, but spent many of her adult years in New York and
North Bennington VT. She did not cotton to the Vermont
ways very well...they are a peculiar people! Hope you
can find a copy of this book and have a chance to
read it! Tenstripes

Hello, I am here- watching, listening, rarely
speaking...more in spirit then in flesh. The absence of a voice
that spoke such uncanny truth, a mind that had such
incredible insight into the complexities of man, the hand
that wrote amazingly eerie, visceral tales is mourned
in perpetuity. How ironic that she last spoke to us
from the depths of a dusty crate found in a dark
barn...I hope someday more treasures come to light. Forget
the blood and gore of today-Shirley could scare your
socks off with psychological chillers...and make you
laugh your sides sore with her family tales. She was
darkness and light and we were fortunate to glimpse both
faces.

Ta-da! People are actually here! :) I quit checking this club back in June or
July because nobody ever came! Glad to see that there are still fans of
Shirley's out there!<br><br>Kristi

hi, i'm alive, i think.<br>i ususally like to
read what people say and dont like to post messages
myself.<br>i read a lot of shirley a few years ago and started
again recently. i had forgotten how wonderful she and
have been other people reading her as well. i dont
know much about her personaly, though, do you
claudia?<br><br>robyn

I am doing a paper on Jackson's THE SUNDIAL<br>utilizing apocalyptic theory, or
the theory of<br>endings.<br>Is there a new beginning at the end of the
novel?<br>If so, is it better in any way?

Basically I am writing this because every time I
come in I have to look at the same stupid comment I
posted a month ago. So here is a new stupid comment to
hold me for the next month. IF anyone ever comes in
here, for any reason, email me (claudia_boo@...)
for something to do. Any friend of Shirley is a
friend of mine!!

My favorite novel is "We Have Always Lived in the
Castle", which I read in the bathtub from 11 pm to 3 am
when i was 16. When the fireman threw the stone at the
house, my final verdict on humanity was formed.

I'd say it depends on whom you're writing the
essay for and what grade level you're at. A good angle
would be to write about why we follow rituals and
customs and what our customs say about ourselves. Before
you write, you might want to look at some of the
literary criticism that's been done on "The Lottery,"
since it's one of the most heavily analyzed stories in
all of American literature.

I have to write an essay on The Lottery.  I can do it anyway I want.  I have
read the story and love it.  Any suggestions?

ello there--I am amazed and gratified to find
there is someone on the internet with enough taste to
start a Shirley Jackson fan club. I've known and loved
Jackson's work for years, but had gotten away from it until
Just An Ordinary Day came out. I'm absolutely blown
away by it. It's difficult to believe that a writer
could publish as many brilliant things as she did, and
still have leftover gems like these sitting dormant and
undiscovered for so many years. "Nightmare," for instance, is
on a par with the "The Lottery," and yet has gone
unknown all this time.<br><br>For what it's worth, there
are two main reasons why I admire Jackson's work. The
first is that as an aspiring writer (isn't everybody an
aspiring writer these days?) I am always looking to short
stories as the best examples of the art. This is simply
because all the greatest American writers, from Jackson
to Hemingway to Carson McCullers to damn near
everyone else, honed their skills and built their
reputations through the short-story form, and it is truly a
shame that there is almost no commercial market for
short stories anymore. The second reason is that I am
an English teacher, and Jackson's stories and
personal essays always make such terrfic material for
class readings and discussions. It also goes without
saying that the psychological hooks and twists for which
Jackson is known make her simply one of the most
entertaining (and chilling!) authors around.<br><br>Anyway, I
just want to say I'm glad to have found you, and I
hope that others will join up as time goes on. I
suspect the release of the Hill House movie later this
year might just make that happen, although I have
little hope that the movie will resemble Jackson's book
much--I'm always pessimistic about film adaptations. We'll
see, at any rate.<br><br>Thanks!

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