In this special episode, Mel and Lisa interview author and book critic Ruth Franklin to discuss her critically acclaimed book Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book and appears on "best of 2016" lists, from Time, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and The Boston Globe, to name a few.

Ruth Franklin is a book critic, who has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Review of Books. Along with Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, she is also the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

 

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