June 26 1948 was when the story "The Lottery" was published. After it was published the story got an extreme about of hate. Many people cancelled their subscriptions to the magazine were it was published. People called the story "outrageous" "gruesome" and "utterly pointless." So many people were outraged by this story. They didn't understand why Jackson would write such a story. Shortly after the story was published, a friend sent Jackson a note, saying, “Heard a man talking about a story of yours on the bus this morning. Very exciting. I wanted to tell him I knew the author, but after I heard what he was saying, I decided I’d better not.” Jackson later said that June 26, 1948 was “the last time for months I was to pick up the mail without an active feeling of panic.” The New Yorker forwarded the mail they received about her story—sometimes as many as 10 to 12 letters a day. Jackson was forced to switch to the biggest possible...
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