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Sixty-plus years of Shirley Jackson

The 60th anniversary of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” prompts Carrie Frye to offer an appreciation of the author and her We Lived in the Castle (now with Lethem intro).

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Rebutting The New Yorker’s most famous cartoon

  NB to professors searching for a colleague’s name + “pussy”: If you are going to troll the Internet for images of or information about someone’s genitals, you might want to do it from someplace other than the university where you work. Especially when your last name and first initial are embedded in your IP address. And even more especially . . .

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