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Let Me Tell You about Shirley Jackson and Clark Gable, did the Mistress of Menace meet the King of Hollywood?

Clark Gable and Nancy Hawks at El Morocco (1948)
Clark Gable and Nancy Hawks at El Morocco (1948), the year Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery was published in the New Yorker

Leave it to Shirley Jackson to spin a tale of an unsettling — and altogether too true — encounter with fame. I wonder, was she at El Morocco that night?

The story is called The Arabian Nights from the newly published and absolutely mesmerizing,

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

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