Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

Jackson is extremely skilled in creating a sense of anxiety without resorting to the obvious. Her use of pacing, unreality, and paranoia are masterful. A recurring theme in her stories is the idea of everyone being crazy except for the main character - but accusing the main character of being the crazy one. Gaslighting, essentially. Because of this, the sense of powerlessness and frustration is palpable.

Favorites included:

(short stories)

- Paranoia
- Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons
- Company for Dinner
- Gaudeamus Igitur
- The Lie
- Family Treasures
- Showdown
- Six AM is the Hour
- The Man in the Woods

(essays)

- Good Old House
- The Ghosts of Loiret