The Illness Lesson, by Clare Beams
by Emily Nagin
“Quietly brutal, at times hallucinatory, and laced with emotional trap doors and secret passages, The Illness Lesson vibrates with a slow burning fury”: Emily Nagin reviews Clare Beams’ debut novel.
“Quietly brutal, at times hallucinatory, and laced with emotional trap doors and secret passages, The Illness Lesson vibrates with a slow burning fury”: Emily Nagin reviews Clare Beams’ debut novel.
“Soon matters take an even darker turn.” Jacob M. Appel on Shirley Jackson’s most unsettling short story.
“It was the first of many moments in the writing of Shirley when I felt as if I were on a path guided by unseen forces”: Susan Scarf Merrell chats with Ellen Prentiss Campbell about her new novel and her relationship to the work of Shirley Jackson.
