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87 - Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
87 - Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Aug 7, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
David, Eric, and Nick seek out some mid-summer spookiness in Shirley Jackson’s acclaimed We Have Always Lived in the Castle and instead find a compact work that is much more complicated than the horror themes, accessible sentences, and vaguely young adult-ish book cover (thanks Penguin Classics) lead one to believe. Cheers to Jackson for walking the line between genre and literary fiction and forcing the reader to sit with a story that has all the trappings of a murder mystery, but none of the virtuous resolutions. Perhaps we are all lacking the ability to communicate across societal lines, forever content in our ever-shrinking castles after all.
Released:
Aug 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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