The Road through the Wall A novel that reminds me of what I’ve always known, that American suburbs are deeply rotten states. Shirley Jackson earned her fame by writing about small towns, but this novel published around the same time of the The Lottery story collection is a reminder, along with most of those stories, that all parts of the US have a deep cultural rot to them that is not housed in specific places. Those places just have their own flavors. The novel takes […]
The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters
The Road through the Wall by Shirley Jackson
Selected Prose of TS Eliot by TS Eliot
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