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Will ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Spoil ‘Mockingbird’?
The July 14 publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman is, indisputably, news. The reclusive author, now 89, was never expected to follow up on her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a...
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Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ in 10 Quotations
Every other week Oscar van Gelderen, the publisher at Lebowski in Holland, who blogs here, summarizes a notable work of fiction in ten quotes, with an emphasis on style and voice. No spoilers. This...
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Five Books Making News This Week: Second Acts and Elegies
Two literary supernovas, each with iconic first novels that sold tens of millions, died on Friday, triggering an outpouring of sadness trending on Twitter #HarperLee #UmbertoEco. A Pulitzer Prize...
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Harper Lee and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
The last year of Harper Lee’s life led the public through a maze of conflicting emotions. First there was the excitement about the new book, then the questions about whether Lee had really exercised...
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How a Christmas Present Gave Harper Lee the Time to Write To Kill a Mockingbird
Like the Christ child himself, Atticus Finch was born on Christmas. It was 1956, and Nelle Harper Lee would not be heading home to Alabama for the holidays. She couldn’t get time off from her job as an...
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Why is everyone still naming their babies “Atticus”?
I mean . . . we all know about Go Set a Watchman, right? But despite the fact that the Greatest Dad in Literary History may have turned out to be a racist (at least in the mind of his creator), people...
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