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Description: A scathing review of the posthumous collection Just an Ordinary Day, which singles out the worthwhile stories buried among those that "should have been mercifully allowed to molder away".
(December 29, 1996)
Distress Signals - New York Times Edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart. Is there an ethics of editing? Is there a moral as well as a professional responsibility involved in bringing together disparate work by a writer no longer living, in creating a book that will bear the writer's name, even though she had no hand in assembling it? More urgently, is there any justification, apart from scholarly publications of classic writers equipped with annotations and footnotes, for bringing into print inferior material the writer might have opposed publishing? ''Just an Ordinary Day,'' a gathering of 54 previously uncollected (and, in many instances, unpublished) stories by Shirley Jackson, arranged and with an introduction by two of her children, Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart, raises these difficult questions.
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| Page title: | Distress Signals - New York Times |
| Keywords: | REVIEWS, BOOKS AND LITERATURE,JACKSON SHIRLEY,JUST AN ORDINARY DAY (BOOK) |
| Description: | Just An Ordinary Day By Shirley Jackson. Edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart. 388 pp. New York: Bantam Books. $23.95. Is there an ethics of editing? Is there a moral as well as a professional responsibility involved in bringing together disparate work by a writer no longer living, in creating a book that will bear the writer's name, even though she had no hand in assembling it? More urgently, is there any justification, apart from scholarly publications of classic writers equipped with annotations and footnotes, for bringing into print inferior material the writer might have opposed publishing? ''Just an Ordinary Day,'' a gathering of 54 previously uncollected (and, in many instances, unpublished) stories by Shirley Jackson, arranged and with an introduction by two of her children, Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart, raises these difficult questions. |
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