"Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker â€¦ [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?"

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Source : Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.114, Penguin

Shirley Jackson

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