[Let Me Tell You 01] • Let Me Tell You by Jackson, Shirley -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Epigraph Biographical Note Foreword: “I Think I Know Her” by Ruth Franklin I: Sudden and Unusual Things Have Happened

Paranoia Still Life with Teapot and Students The Arabian Nights Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons It Isn’t the Money I Mind Company for Dinner I Cannot Sing the Old Songs The New Maid French Is the Mark of a Lady Gaudeamus Igitur The Lie She Says the Damnedest Things Remembrance of Things Past Let Me Tell You Bulletin Family Treasures Showdown The Trouble with My Husband Six A.M. Is the Hour Root of Evil The Bridge Game The Man in the Woods

II: I Would Rather Write Than Do Anything Else

Autobiographical Musing A Garland of Garlands Hex Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar Clowns A Vroom for Dr. Seuss Notes on an Unfashionable Novelist Private Showing Good Old House The Play’s the Thing The Ghosts of Loiret “Well?”

III: When This War Is Over

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Period Piece 4-F Party The Paradise Homecoming Daughter, Come Home As High as the Sky Murder on Miss Lederer’s Birthday

IV: Somehow Things Haven’t Turned Out Quite the Way We Expected

Here I Am, Washing Dishes Again In Praise of Dinner Table Silence Questions I Wish I’d Never Asked Mother, Honestly! How to Enjoy a Family Quarrel The Pleasures and Perils of Dining Out with Children Out of the Mouths of Babes The Real Me On Girls of Thirteen What I Want to Know Is, What Do Other People Cook With?

V: I’d Like to See You Get Out of That Sentence

About the End of the World Memory and Delusion On Fans and Fan Mail How I Write Garlic in Fiction

Afterword Dedication Acknowledgments Other Titles About the Editors