WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER! Today’s prize is criticizing Karens, putting a few notches in the pillar of tradition, and talking about child murderers (kinda). In episode one, Allie and Emmy take on Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, a 1948 piece taking place in a village where the occupants are taking practice in the ominous “Lottery”. What is the lottery? Why do they do it? Emmy and Allie tackle these open questions through analyzing the practice of tradition, the foreshadowing cleverly placed by Jackson, and tying it together with history. You ready to draw?

In our next episode, we will discuss "Unidentified Flying Object" by Robert Hayden, which can be found here: "Unidentified Flying Object" by Robert Hayden - E-Verse RadioE-Verse Radio

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Here are links to the articles mentioned in this episode:

"The Lottery" - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery

"The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson" - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-haunted-mind-of-shirley-jackson

"'The Lottery' Letters" - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters