Shirley Jackson, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman & Sarah Hyman Dewitt, with a foreword by Ruth Franklin (New York: Random House, 2015) (Readers should take special note of the essay, "Notes on an Unfashionable Novelist (Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761)." I would have read Let Me Tell You without having read Paul Theroux review. However, it went to the read-now-rather-later list with his first paragraph/ "How do we explain to the new, knowing wash-ashores, Brits and Aussies mainly, who've insinuated themselves into the media here, and not popular American culture generally, and to the very young, that there are touchstones and events that define us, that have formed us, that they know nothing about? They don't have the slightest clue, nor do they know Bo Diddley." Paul Theroux, "The Stories She Told," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 8/2/2015.).
