‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson: Short Story Analysis ‘The Lottery’ is a puritanical short story with a macabre twist penned in 1948 by American writer Shirley Jackson. The story is one of Jackson's best pieces that took America by storm when published in ‘The New Yorker’ magazine in June 1948. People were outraged by the hauntingly unnerving twist in this otherwise … [Read more...] about ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson: Short Story Analysis
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‘The Hunter’ by E. L. Doctorow: Short Story Analysis
‘The Hunter’ by E. L. Doctorow: Short Story Analysis ‘The Hunter’ is a surreal modernist short story penned by one of the greatest American writers of the last century, namely E. L. Doctorow. The writer's full name is Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, and he was a resident of New York. He was an award-winning author of many books, and President Barack Obama was very fond of him as … [Read more...] about ‘The Hunter’ by E. L. Doctorow: Short Story Analysis
‘The Sinner’ by Tess Gerritsen: Book Review
The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen: Book Review The Sinner is the third book in the Rizzoli and Isles series penned by Tess Gerritsen, an American novelist, and famous thriller writer. The novel is a medical crime thriller about the murder of a young twenty-one-year-old nun in a cloistered convent. Along with the young nun, a sixty-eight-year-old nun was also attacked brutally … [Read more...] about ‘The Sinner’ by Tess Gerritsen: Book Review
‘Children are Bored on Sunday’ by Jean Stafford: Short Story Analysis
‘Children are Bored on Sunday’ by Jean Stafford: Short Story Analysis ‘Children are Bored on Sunday’ is the modernist realistic short story penned by American novelist, short story writer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Jean Stafford. It narrates how two young people Emma and Alfred, the former a novice in everything intellectual and the latter a real intellectual, … [Read more...] about ‘Children are Bored on Sunday’ by Jean Stafford: Short Story Analysis
‘To Obama, With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair’ by Jeanne Marie Laskas: Book Review
‘To Obama, With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair’ by Jeanne Marie Laskas: Book Review ‘To Obama’ is a motivational and deeply moving non-fiction book about how President Obama made it a practice to read ten letters before ending his day. President Barack Obama used to receive around ten thousand messages from concerned USA citizens every day. He made it a compulsory pattern to … [Read more...] about ‘To Obama, With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair’ by Jeanne Marie Laskas: Book Review