Emily Collins is a writer and teaching artist in NYC.
Shirley Jackson and the Ordinariness of Evil
On a fear of conformity—the prospect of becoming someone else’s idea—that compelled Jackson to divulge not only the supernatural but the wickedness of the everyday.
On Sandra Cisneros' A House of My Own
“We tell a story to survive a memory in much the same way the oyster survives an invading grain of sand. The pearl is the story of our lives, even if most wouldn’t admit it.”
The places her characters go are scary, but they’re also where we find the crux of Berriault’s fiction: a genuine attempt to understand the unresolved.
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