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Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

Shirley Jackson

First published 2015
Publisher Random House
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Edel Rodriguez
Pages xxvii+416
Price $30.00
ISBN 9780812997668

  • Edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt (children of Shirley Jackson).
  • Divided into sections. "Sudden and Unusual Things Have Happened: Unpublished and Uncollected Short Fiction;" "I Would Rather Write Than Do Anything Else: Essays and Reviews;" "When This War Is Over: Early Short Stories;" "Somehow Things Haven't Turned Out Quite the Way We Expected: Humor and Family;" "I'd Like to See You Get Out of That Sentence: Lectures About the Craft of Writing."
  • The book also contains half a dozen simple drawings or doodles by Shirley Jackson.

Year Reviewer Publication
2016 Stefan Dziemianowicz Locus, #660 January 2016

Searching by ISBN: 9780812997668

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Paranoia Shirley Jackson Short Story
15 Still Life with Teapot and Students Shirley Jackson Short Story
21 The Arabian Nights Shirley Jackson Short Story
29 Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons Shirley Jackson Novelette
51 It Isn't the Money I Mind Shirley Jackson Short Story
57 Company for Dinner Shirley Jackson Short Story
61 I Cannot Sing the Old Songs Shirley Jackson Short Story
63 The New Maid Shirley Jackson Short Story
73 French Is the Mark of a Lady Shirley Jackson Short Story
77 Gaudeamus Igitur Shirley Jackson Short Story
83 The Lie Shirley Jackson Short Story
101 She Says the Damnedest Things Shirley Jackson Short Story
103 Remembrance of Things Past Shirley Jackson Short Story
107 Let Me Tell You Shirley Jackson Short Story
115 Bulletin Shirley Jackson Short Story
119 Family Treasures Shirley Jackson Short Story
135 Showdown Shirley Jackson Short Story
143 The Trouble with My Husband Shirley Jackson Short Story
149 Six A.M. Is the Hour Shirley Jackson Short Story
157 Root of Evil Shirley Jackson Short Story
165 The Bridge Game Shirley Jackson Short Story
173 The Man in the Woods Shirley Jackson Short Story
191 Autobiographical Musing Shirley Jackson Essay
193 A Garland of Garlands Shirley Jackson Essay
199 Hex Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar Shirley Jackson Essay
205 Clowns Shirley Jackson Essay
211 A Vroom for Dr. Seuss Shirley Jackson Essay
215 Notes on an Unfashionable Novelist Shirley Jackson Essay
219 Private Showing Shirley Jackson Essay
223 Good Old House Shirley Jackson Essay
233 The Play's the Thing Shirley Jackson Essay
241 The Ghosts of Loiret Shirley Jackson Essay
253 "Well?" Shirley Jackson Essay
257 The Sorcerer's Apprentice Shirley Jackson Short Story
265 Period Piece Shirley Jackson Short Story
271 4-F Party Shirley Jackson Short Story
279 The Paradise Shirley Jackson Short Story
285 Homecoming Shirley Jackson Short Story
293 Daughter, Come Home Shirley Jackson Short Story
299 As High As the Sky Shirley Jackson Short Story
305 Murder on Miss Lederer's Birthday Shirley Jackson Short Story
317 Here I Am, Washing Dishes Again Shirley Jackson Essay
323 In Praise of Dinner Table Silence Shirley Jackson Essay
327 Questions I Wish I'd Never Asked Shirley Jackson Essay
333 Mother, Honestly! Shirley Jackson Essay
337 How to Enjoy a Family Quarrel Shirley Jackson Essay
345 The Pleasures and Perils of Dining Out with Children Shirley Jackson Essay
353 Out of the Mouths of Babes Shirley Jackson Essay
357 The Real Me Shirley Jackson Essay
359 On Girls of Thirteen Shirley Jackson Essay
365 What I Want to Know Is, What Do Other People Cook With? Shirley Jackson Essay
373 About the End of the World Shirley Jackson Essay
375 Memory and Delusion Shirley Jackson Essay
383 On Fans and Fan Mail Shirley Jackson Essay
389 How I Write Shirley Jackson Essay
395 Garlic in Fiction Shirley Jackson Essay
409 Afterword (Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings) Laurence Jackson Hyman & Sarah Hyman DeWitt Essay
xv Foreword: "I Think I Know Her" Ruth Franklin Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings Cover 2015 Random House eBook Collection Edel Rodriguez
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings Cover 2016 Random House Trade Paperbacks Trade Paperback Collection Edel Rodriguez xxvii+416