We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin

On the Road with Penguin Classics

Shirley Jackson in North Bennington, Vermont. Award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin visits the small village of North Bennington, where Jackson lived for twenty years. We stand in the square where Jackson imagined 'The Lottery' and conjure the ghost of Merricat Blackwood as she collects her sinister groceries in Jackson’s last and greatest novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133431/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191454

Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, read by Bernadette Dunne

https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle?sp=15364

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191430

Penguin Audio edition of The Lottery and Other Stories, read by Francine Brody

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133428/the-lottery-and-other-stories-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994871

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Modern Classics edition)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780241387801

Penguin Audio edition of Life Among the Savages, read by Kate Handford

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312885/life-among-the-savages-by-jackson-shirley/9780141994901

Ruth Franklin

https://ruthfranklin.substack.com/

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

https://wwnorton.com/books/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/

The Moonscones Micro-Bakery

http://www.moonscones.com/

Powers Market

https://powersmarket.com/

The John G McCullough Free Library

https://mcculloughlibrary.org/

Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/

Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/

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