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Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
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Wednesday July 23, 2008 (7–9pm)
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$5
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Shirley Jackson published "The Lottery" in The New Yorker on June 28th, 1948. The pitch-black story of a small town driven to arbitrary, ritualistic violence had an instant ripple effect, inspiring an outpouring of letters to the magazine and a public banning by the Union of South Africa. The result, of course, was the story's canonization in literary anthologies around the world. Tonight, leading writers of gothic horror and fantastic fiction gather to celebrate the incendiary story's 60th anniversary with readings of Jackson's other works. All proceeds of the event benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards.
