Tag: neither of us had ever seen a famous person yet in New York but at dinner with my cousin that night I saw John Larroquette (not sure if that counts) (he IS from the home state though!)

Thank y’all for Shirley Jackson. Really. I mean it. I wouldn’t have read We Have Always Lived in the Castle or The Haunting of Hill House without your recommendation, and I like those books a lot. Shirley Jackson and her atmosphere-creating ways. The woman has a gift. When I was at the library the other day, getting books about British colonial encounters, I paused in the fiction section to check on the Shirley Jackson situation, and I was delighted to find that another of her novels was in, The Sundial. The Sundial is about the Halloran family, three generations of…