Shirley Jackson Is Awesome So Bite It, Haters

Those who subscribe know that often the Library of America books can land with a clonk. The recent Emerson and Thoreau and Twain volumes were of course good if not thrilling to receive; the Philip K. Dick one of last year was great and surprising, if a bit oddly curated for my tastes. So when the Shirley Jackson collection arrived last week, it was like a party had gone off in the mailbox! A party of words! LADY WORDS EVEN! Now joining an astoundingly slender list of women in the 204-book series, we have, inevitably, heard that Shirley Jackson’s just not worthy. 1. You can suck eggs and 2. go read We Have Always Lived in the Castle and then 3. you can suck eggs some more, dumb boys.