Shirley Jackson’s “Call Me Ishmael,” plus commentary

An early short story from Shirley Jackson appears in the newest issue of The New Yorker magazine.

“Call Me Ishmael” was published in 1939 in Spectre, a literary magazine that Jackson co-founded with Stanley Hyman (her soon-to-be-husband) at Syracuse University.

Their son Lawrence Hyman provides commentary on the brief and mysterious story of a girl watching her mother watch another woman to The New Yorker, to accompany it.

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