This week on my podcast It’s a Lot, I joined forces with my friend Sarah McGrath, a bookstagrammer, avid reader, physical therapist, and mom, for a book chat about two of Shirley Jackson’s books that represent the two very different sides of her work: We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Life Among the Savages. Jackson is well known for her gothic/psychological horror; most of us read her famous short story “The Lottery” in school, and The Haunting of Hill House was adapted into a Netflix series a few years ago. But her domestic memoirs are lesser known in 2026, and I love them as much as her other writing!