just one day left for giveaway!

Dear friends,

I know everyone in America is about to settle in to watch the presidential debate. But just one last reminder—this is it! SHIRLEY JACKSON: A RATHER HAUNTED LIFE will be out tomorrow and the giveaway will close. So if you've been meaning to enter, don't delay. Just send your pre-order receipt with the subject line GIVEAWAY to shirleyjacksonbio@gmail.com and you'll be eligible to win a complete set of Jackson's novels from Penguin Classics.

I'll leave you with this quote from Heather Havrilesky's review in The Atlantic last week:
Seven decades before Donald Trump’s outraged mobs, Jackson unveiled the brutality and contempt that lurk beneath the surface of neighborly human interactions. From “The Lottery,” her seminal portrait of a murderous horde of ordinary folks published in The New Yorker in 1948, to her final chilling novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), in which a hostile gaggle of villagers harasses two sisters isolated in their dead parents’ lonely house, Jackson felt compelled to sound the alarm on humanity: People are competitive and self-serving, and no one can be trusted.
Now, time for that debate!
All best, Ruth   "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."—Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House