The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson · first published 1983
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…found this interesting, because it seemed unbelievable to me that an app could be able to tell good writing from bad writing in a reliable or useful way. So I took excerpts from Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and pasted them in. (For anyone unfamiliar with it, The Lottery is considered a masterpiece of a short story, and is widely taught in American high schools.) The excerpts I pasted were almost universally…
on “When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?” ↗I had a vague idea that I had read Shirley Jackson's The Lottery from this list. I checked it out and I do recall it, and it was really shocking to read. Apparently subscribers of The New Yorker, where it was first serialized, cancelled their subscriptions in disgust.…
on “50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels” ↗> A stone hit her on the side of the head. Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery" I always loved that the first one waa anonymous, disembodied, as if no one (or everyone all at once) threw it. I always wondered about the type of person who could start such a thing. Later, when…
on “The Rise of Righteous Online Bullies” ↗A parody of a fictional New Yorker article, in which journalist Isaac Chotiner grills the administrator from Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" about the civic benefits of ritual stoning.
on “Why one small American town won't stop stoning its residents to death” ↗Shirley Jackson's Lottery.
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