Margo Jefferson on Another Kind of Haunting

I was frankly scared after she died. I thought “She’ll be SO ANGRY that she died!” Dare I borrow some of her mannerisms? I’ve always liked ghost stories, but there are literal hauntings and ways of tangling with ghosts that are inside you as well as outside.

Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times, where she won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson