Podcasts that mention 📚 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

So, my dad, when one of the—I mean this is probably a little bit cliché or maybe obvious to some of your listeners, but when I was 15 or 16 and my best friend and I were studying all the time with my dad and we were navigating our social context and trying to figure out how to manage and maneuver around peer pressure, my dad gave us Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, this short story about this public stoning, you know that the whole town participates in.

The guest, Thomas Chatterton Williams, shares a pivotal experience from his youth when his father introduced him and a friend to Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'. This powerful short story, centered on a chilling public stoning, served as a crucial tool in helping them understand and cope with peer pressure.

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So The Lottery is something that I can still see myself sitting at the kitchen table and him handing to me on a Xerox printout to think through and underline and then talk about later when we were done.

In this segment, Thomas Chatterton Williams recalls receiving the book 'The Lottery' from his father, describing a vivid memory of sitting at the kitchen table, working through the text together.

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