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Shelley Jackson

January 01, 1970

For the author of "The Lottery" and other short stories, see Shirley Jackson.

Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is an American writer and artist known for her cross-genre experimental works. These include her hyperfiction Patchwork Girl (1995) and her first novel, Half Life (2006).

Shelley Jackson
Jackson at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
Born1963 (age 60–61)[citation needed]
OccupationWriter, artist
NationalityAmerican
EducationBerkeley High School
Stanford University (BA)
Brown University (MFA)
Spouse
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(m. 1987; div. 1998)​
Website
www.ineradicablestain.com

Biography edit

In her own words: "Shelley Jackson was extracted from the bum leg of a water buffalo in 1963 in the Philippines and grew up complaining in Berkeley, California."[1] Here, her family ran a small women's bookstore for several years; Jackson later recalled, "I was already in love with books by then [...] and the family store just confirmed what I already suspected, that books were the most interesting and important things in the world. Of course I wanted to write them!"[2] She graduated from Berkeley High School,[3] and received a B.A. in art from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University. She is self-described as a "student in the art of digression".[4]

While at Brown, Jackson was taught by electronic literature advocates Robert Coover and George Landow. During one of Landow's lectures in 1993, Jackson began drawing "a naked woman with dotted-line scars" in her notebook, an image she eventually expanded into her first hypertext novel, Patchwork Girl.[5] Jackson later said that she never considered publishing Patchwork Girl as a print novel, explaining,

I guess you could say I want my fiction to be more like a world full of things that you can wander around in, rather than a record or memory of those wanderings. The quilt and graveyard sections [of the hypertext], where a concrete metaphor that resonates with the themes of the work creates a literary structure, satisfy me in a very corporeal way. I salivate, my fingers itch.[5]

A nonchronological reworking of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Patchwork Girl was published by Eastgate Systems in 1995 to acclaim;[6] it became Eastgate's best-selling CD-ROM title and is now considered a groundbreaking work of hypertext fiction.[5][7] "Patchwork Girl" uses tissue and scars as well as the body and the skeleton as metaphors for the juxtaposition of lexia and link. While working in a San Francisco, California bookstore,[5] Jackson published two more hypertexts, the autobiographical My Body[8] (1997), and The Doll Games[9] (2001), which she wrote with her sister Pamela.

In the late nineties, Jackson alternated hypertext work with writing short stories (in publications such as The Paris Review and Conjunctions) and children's books. Jackson has explained that she "completely ignored" one college professor who told her the key to success was focus, and added that "[s]ometimes this means shuttling manically between art and writing and other, more unmentionable obsessions. More and more, though, and partly because of the ease of mixing media in electronic work, I've come to see all these projects as interrelated."[2] During this period, Jackson also did cover and interior illustrations for two short story collections by Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen (2001) and Magic for Beginners (2005). She also illustrated her own children's books, The Old Woman and the Wave (1998) and Sophia, the Alchemist's Dog (2002).

 
Skin Project "Word"

She published her first short story collection, The Melancholy of Anatomy, in 2002. In 2003 she launched the Skin Project,[10] which she described as a "mortal work of art": a novella published exclusively in the form of tattoos on the skin of volunteers, one word at a time. Only those participating in the project were permitted to read the entire narrative. Jackson's first novel, Half Life,[11] was published by HarperCollins in 2006. The story of a disenchanted conjoined twin named Nora Olney who plots to have her other twin murdered, Half Life suggests an alternate history in which the atomic bomb resulted in a genetic preponderance of conjoined twins, who eventually become a minority subculture. The novel received mixed-to-positive reviews; Newsweek called it "brilliant and funny,"[12] and The New York Times, while praising Jackson's ambition as "truly glorious," added that "All this razzle-dazzle, all the allusions, [and] the narrative loop-de-loops [get] a bit busy."[6] Half Life went on to win the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for science fiction and fantasy.[13]

In 1987, Jackson married the writer Jonathan Lethem; they divorced in 1998.[14] She currently teaches part time in the graduate writing program at The New School in New York City and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.[15]

Works edit

Hypertexts edit

  • Patchwork Girl (1995)[16]
  • My Body (1997)[17] N. Katherine Hayles writes that both this work and Patchwork Girl map parts of a female body through links until "body and text become metaphors for each other."[18]
  • The Doll Games (with Pamela Jackson, 2001)[19]

Books edit

  • Nancy Farmer (1993). Do You Know Me. Orchard Books. ISBN 978-0-531-05474-1. Illustrated by Jackson
  • Shelley Jackson (1998). The Old Woman and the Wave. DK Ink. ISBN 978-0-7894-2484-6.
  • Shelley Jackson (2001). Sophia, the Alchemist's Dog. Children's book
  • Shelley Jackson (2002). The Melancholy of Anatomy: Stories. Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-385-72120-2.
  • Shelley Jackson (2006-07-25). Half Life: A Novel. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-088235-8.
  • Shelley Jackson (2010-04-12). Mimi's Dada Catifesto. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-48739-7.
  • Jackson, Shelley (2018). Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children. Black Balloon Publishing. ISBN 978-1936787999.

Other projects edit

  • Skin: a story published on the skin of 2095 volunteers (begun 2003).[20] This work involves tattooing a single word on each of the 2,095 volunteers. John Cayley reviews Skin in Grammalepsy, "given that the entire story cannot be read as published, this is a text that is maximally integrated with a very particular and unusual but very powerful, ethical, moral and mortal culture of human reading."[21]
  • Musée Mécanique, a Web Exclusive[22]
  • The Putti[23]
  • Wrestlemania[24]
  • Hagfish, Worm, Kakapo[25]
  • Stitching Together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl A Review of Patchwork Girl by George Landow
  • SNOW (begun 2014)[26]
  • A Field Guide to Shelley Jacksons (An Aid to Identification) [27]

See also edit

  Biography portal   Books portal   Visual Arts portal   New York City portal   California portal   Philippines portal

References edit

  1. ^ "Ineradicable Stain: who IS is". ineradicablestain.com. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  2. ^ a b Lynch, Megan. "A Conversation with Shelley Jackson", Bold Type 5.12, May 2002. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  3. ^ Metz, Rachel (April 2002). . The Daily Californian. Archived from the original on 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  4. ^ . www.conjunctions.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-21.
  5. ^ a b c d "Stitch Bitch: The Hypertext Author As Cyborg-Femme Narrator", Mark Amerika. March 15, 1998. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  6. ^ a b D'Erasmo, Stacey. "My Sister and Me", The New York Times, August 13, 2006. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  7. ^ Patchwork Girl, Electronic Literature Organization, 2001. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  8. ^ Fricklas, Ken. "'my body' - a Wunderkammer & (Shelley Jackson)". www.altx.com.
  9. ^ "the doll games". www.ineradicablestain.com.
  10. ^ "SKIN: A Mortal Work of Art". www.ineradicablestain.com.
  11. ^ "half life". www.ineradicablestain.com.
  12. ^ Braiker, Brian. , Newsweek, August 16, 2006. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  13. ^ "Shelley Jackson". Science Fiction Awards Database (sfadb.com). Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2013-11-22.
  14. ^ Edemariam, Aida. "The borrower", The Guardian, June 2, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
  15. ^ . European Graduate School. Archived from the original on 2010-05-27.
  16. ^ "Eastgate: Patchwork Girl". www.eastgate.com.
  17. ^ "'my body' - a Wunderkammer & (Shelley Jackson)". www.altx.com.
  18. ^ Hayles, Katherine (1997). "Open-work: Dining at the Interstices". Heelstone Press. Retrieved September 15, 2023.
  19. ^ "the doll games". www.ineradicablestain.com.
  20. ^ "SKIN: A Mortal Work of Art". www.ineradicablestain.com. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  21. ^ Cayley, John (2018). Grammalepsy: Essays on Digital Language Art. New York: Bloomsbury. p. 196. ISBN 9781501335761.
  22. ^ . www.conjunctions.com. Archived from the original on 2009-04-16.
  23. ^ Jackson, Shelley (1996). . Archived from the original on 2010-11-21.
  24. ^ . www.altx.com. 8 February 2005. Archived from the original on 8 February 2005.
  25. ^ Jackson, Shelley. . www.conjunctions.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-21.
  26. ^ "SNOW". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  27. ^ "Shelley Jackson's INERADICABLE STAIN : shelley jacksons". ineradicablestain.com. Retrieved 2022-09-13.

External links edit

 
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  • Official website
  • Written On (and Under) the Skin. An interview with Shelley Jackson by Rosita Nunes.
  • Shelley Jackson: The Writer Whose Medium Is Reality from The Quarterly Conversation by William Patrick Wend Shelley Jackson: The Writer Whose Medium Is Reality from The Quarterly Conversation by William Patrick Wend
  • How to Unread Shelley Jackson? by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe
  • Ce que nous lisons, ce qui ne nous regarde pas : lectures intimes de Shelley Jackson 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe
  • Shelley Jackson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

January 01, 1970
shelley, jackson, author, lottery, other, short, stories, shirley, jackson, born, 1963, american, writer, artist, known, cross, genre, experimental, works, these, include, hyperfiction, patchwork, girl, 1995, first, novel, half, life, 2006, jackson, 2018, texa. For the author of The Lottery and other short stories see Shirley Jackson Shelley Jackson born 1963 is an American writer and artist known for her cross genre experimental works These include her hyperfiction Patchwork Girl 1995 and her first novel Half Life 2006 Shelley JacksonJackson at the 2018 Texas Book FestivalBorn1963 age 60 61 citation needed OccupationWriter artistNationalityAmericanEducationBerkeley High SchoolStanford University BA Brown University MFA SpouseJonathan Lethem m 1987 div 1998 wbr Websitewww wbr ineradicablestain wbr com Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2 1 Hypertexts 2 2 Books 2 3 Other projects 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksBiography editIn her own words Shelley Jackson was extracted from the bum leg of a water buffalo in 1963 in the Philippines and grew up complaining in Berkeley California 1 Here her family ran a small women s bookstore for several years Jackson later recalled I was already in love with books by then and the family store just confirmed what I already suspected that books were the most interesting and important things in the world Of course I wanted to write them 2 She graduated from Berkeley High School 3 and received a B A in art from Stanford University and an M F A in creative writing from Brown University She is self described as a student in the art of digression 4 While at Brown Jackson was taught by electronic literature advocates Robert Coover and George Landow During one of Landow s lectures in 1993 Jackson began drawing a naked woman with dotted line scars in her notebook an image she eventually expanded into her first hypertext novel Patchwork Girl 5 Jackson later said that she never considered publishing Patchwork Girl as a print novel explaining I guess you could say I want my fiction to be more like a world full of things that you can wander around in rather than a record or memory of those wanderings The quilt and graveyard sections of the hypertext where a concrete metaphor that resonates with the themes of the work creates a literary structure satisfy me in a very corporeal way I salivate my fingers itch 5 A nonchronological reworking of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein Patchwork Girl was published by Eastgate Systems in 1995 to acclaim 6 it became Eastgate s best selling CD ROM title and is now considered a groundbreaking work of hypertext fiction 5 7 Patchwork Girl uses tissue and scars as well as the body and the skeleton as metaphors for the juxtaposition of lexia and link While working in a San Francisco California bookstore 5 Jackson published two more hypertexts the autobiographical My Body 8 1997 and The Doll Games 9 2001 which she wrote with her sister Pamela In the late nineties Jackson alternated hypertext work with writing short stories in publications such as The Paris Review and Conjunctions and children s books Jackson has explained that she completely ignored one college professor who told her the key to success was focus and added that s ometimes this means shuttling manically between art and writing and other more unmentionable obsessions More and more though and partly because of the ease of mixing media in electronic work I ve come to see all these projects as interrelated 2 During this period Jackson also did cover and interior illustrations for two short story collections by Kelly Link Stranger Things Happen 2001 and Magic for Beginners 2005 She also illustrated her own children s books The Old Woman and the Wave 1998 and Sophia the Alchemist s Dog 2002 nbsp Skin Project Word She published her first short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy in 2002 In 2003 she launched the Skin Project 10 which she described as a mortal work of art a novella published exclusively in the form of tattoos on the skin of volunteers one word at a time Only those participating in the project were permitted to read the entire narrative Jackson s first novel Half Life 11 was published by HarperCollins in 2006 The story of a disenchanted conjoined twin named Nora Olney who plots to have her other twin murdered Half Life suggests an alternate history in which the atomic bomb resulted in a genetic preponderance of conjoined twins who eventually become a minority subculture The novel received mixed to positive reviews Newsweek called it brilliant and funny 12 and The New York Times while praising Jackson s ambition as truly glorious added that All this razzle dazzle all the allusions and the narrative loop de loops get a bit busy 6 Half Life went on to win the 2006 James Tiptree Jr Award for science fiction and fantasy 13 In 1987 Jackson married the writer Jonathan Lethem they divorced in 1998 14 She currently teaches part time in the graduate writing program at The New School in New York City and at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee 15 Works editHypertexts edit Patchwork Girl 1995 16 My Body 1997 17 N Katherine Hayles writes that both this work and Patchwork Girl map parts of a female body through links until body and text become metaphors for each other 18 The Doll Games with Pamela Jackson 2001 19 Books edit Nancy Farmer 1993 Do You Know Me Orchard Books ISBN 978 0 531 05474 1 Illustrated by Jackson Shelley Jackson 1998 The Old Woman and the Wave DK Ink ISBN 978 0 7894 2484 6 Shelley Jackson 2001 Sophia the Alchemist s Dog Children s book Shelley Jackson 2002 The Melancholy of Anatomy Stories Anchor Books ISBN 978 0 385 72120 2 Shelley Jackson 2006 07 25 Half Life A Novel HarperCollins ISBN 978 0 06 088235 8 Shelley Jackson 2010 04 12 Mimi s Dada Catifesto Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 978 0 547 48739 7 Jackson Shelley 2018 Riddance Or The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing Mouth Children Black Balloon Publishing ISBN 978 1936787999 Other projects edit Skin a story published on the skin of 2095 volunteers begun 2003 20 This work involves tattooing a single word on each of the 2 095 volunteers John Cayley reviews Skin in Grammalepsy given that the entire story cannot be read as published this is a text that is maximally integrated with a very particular and unusual but very powerful ethical moral and mortal culture of human reading 21 Musee Mecanique a Web Exclusive 22 The Putti 23 Wrestlemania 24 Hagfish Worm Kakapo 25 Stitching Together Narrative Sexuality Self Shelley Jackson s Patchwork Girl A Review of Patchwork Girl by George Landow SNOW begun 2014 26 A Field Guide to Shelley Jacksons An Aid to Identification 27 See also edit nbsp Biography portal nbsp Books portal nbsp Visual Arts portal nbsp New York City portal nbsp California portal nbsp Philippines portal Electronic Literature OrganizationReferences edit Ineradicable Stain who IS is ineradicablestain com Retrieved 2022 09 13 a b Lynch Megan A Conversation with Shelley Jackson Bold Type 5 12 May 2002 Retrieved 2007 08 01 Metz Rachel April 2002 Book Review A Melancholy Body of Stories Fleshes Out Our Worst Somatic Fears The Daily Californian Archived from the original on 2007 03 14 Retrieved 2007 08 01 Conjunctions Read Dangerously www conjunctions com Archived from the original on 2010 11 21 a b c d Stitch Bitch The Hypertext Author As Cyborg Femme Narrator Mark Amerika March 15 1998 Retrieved 2007 08 01 a b D Erasmo Stacey My Sister and Me The New York Times August 13 2006 Retrieved 2007 08 01 Patchwork Girl Electronic Literature Organization 2001 Retrieved 2007 08 01 Fricklas Ken my body a Wunderkammer amp Shelley Jackson www altx com the doll games www ineradicablestain com SKIN A Mortal Work of Art www ineradicablestain com half life www ineradicablestain com Braiker Brian Two Times a Lady Newsweek August 16 2006 Retrieved 2007 08 01 Shelley Jackson Science Fiction Awards Database sfadb com Mark R Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Retrieved 2013 11 22 Edemariam Aida The borrower The Guardian June 2 2007 Retrieved 2007 08 01 Shelley Jackson European Graduate School Archived from the original on 2010 05 27 Eastgate Patchwork Girl www eastgate com my body a Wunderkammer amp Shelley Jackson www altx com Hayles Katherine 1997 Open work Dining at the Interstices Heelstone Press Retrieved September 15 2023 the doll games www ineradicablestain com SKIN A Mortal Work of Art www ineradicablestain com Retrieved 5 February 2022 Cayley John 2018 Grammalepsy Essays on Digital Language Art New York Bloomsbury p 196 ISBN 9781501335761 Web Conjunctions Musee Mecanique by Shelley Jackson www conjunctions com Archived from the original on 2009 04 16 Jackson Shelley 1996 The Putti Archived from the original on 2010 11 21 Wrestlemania www altx com 8 February 2005 Archived from the original on 8 February 2005 Jackson Shelley Hagfish Worm Kakapo www conjunctions com Archived from the original on 2010 11 21 SNOW www instagram com Retrieved 5 February 2022 Shelley Jackson s INERADICABLE STAIN shelley jacksons ineradicablestain com Retrieved 2022 09 13 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shelley Jackson nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Shelley Jackson Official website Written On and Under the Skin An interview with Shelley Jackson by Rosita Nunes Shelley Jackson The Writer Whose Medium Is Reality from The Quarterly Conversation by William Patrick Wend Shelley Jackson The Writer Whose Medium Is Reality from The Quarterly Conversation by William Patrick Wend How to Unread Shelley Jackson by Stephane Vanderhaeghe Ce que nous lisons ce qui ne nous regarde pas lectures intimes de Shelley Jackson Archived 2012 03 10 at the Wayback Machine by Stephane Vanderhaeghe Shelley Jackson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shelley Jackson amp oldid 1217870208, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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