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Thread started 02/03/15 1:21pm

CynicKill

Harper Lee To Release Follow Up To A Classic Everyone Will Be Reading!

Yes, it's true!

Harper Lee, author of the classic "To Kill A Mockingbird", will release the follow up to that story this summer. Ms. Lee dropped out of the novelist game after her classic to everyone's surprise. So it's really shocking that this book has seen the light of day.

Will you be getting your copy?

http://www.ew.com/article...iving-july

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Reply #1 posted 02/03/15 3:02pm

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I will! reading biggrin


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Reply #2 posted 02/03/15 3:08pm

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I will read it. It is wild that it was lost for so long. I am glad she had someone read it... i am a little worried that it could not stand up...but I am excited to see!

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Reply #3 posted 02/03/15 3:29pm

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woot! yes! of course i'll be reading that. ms. Lee has always fascinated me. she hung out with truman capote back in the day, wrote her book and won the pulitzer, yet after such dazzling success, she appears to have just said 'meh. enough'. odd, that!

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Reply #4 posted 02/05/15 6:05pm

Shyra

reading clapping dancing jig excited

I can't wait! My favorite book and movie of all time.

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Reply #5 posted 02/06/15 11:54am

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cool

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Reply #6 posted 02/06/15 12:05pm

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Harper is about to make a ton of money. Not just from the book sales, Hollywood is already foaming at the mouth for the movies rights. There could be a major bidding war. This is the type of project that Spielberg, Fincher, or Scorcese will want to direct. Some people are already mentioning Tom Hanks for Atticus and Jennifer Lawrence for Scout.

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Reply #7 posted 02/06/15 1:21pm

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lrn36 said:

Harper is about to make a ton of money. Not just from the book sales, Hollywood is already foaming at the mouth for the movies rights. There could be a major bidding war. This is the type of project that Spielberg, Fincher, or Scorcese will want to direct. Some people are already mentioning Tom Hanks for Atticus and Jennifer Lawrence for Scout.

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I love Marty, but this doesn't seem like his genre. I can see Spielberg going after it big time, and he probably would do it justice although Hollywood seems to scorn his efforts.

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Reply #8 posted 02/06/15 2:19pm

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From my understanding this is actually a rough draft of the published book and tells the story through the eyes of Scout as an adult. So it seems that its basically the same story just a different perspective.

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Reply #9 posted 02/06/15 2:54pm

CynicKill

Please no Tom Hanks.

I'm not a fan.

But Emma Stone...

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Reply #10 posted 02/06/15 3:55pm

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lazycrockett said:

From my understanding this is actually a rough draft of the published book and tells the story through the eyes of Scout as an adult. So it seems that its basically the same story just a different perspective.

Yeah, this book is the original manuscript she sent to the publisher. The editor was fascinated by the childhood flashbacks and asked Harper to do a book based around Scout as a child. The synopsis for the book:"After living in New York for a number of years, Scout returns home and encounters political and personal conflicts with her father that forces her to reflect on her won worldview." So this very well could be the same story told from a different point of view.

There is also some controversy about whether or not Harper Lee is of sound mind to approve of the book's release.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/harper-lee-novel_n_6608426.html

Is The New Harper Lee Novel A Mistake?: Author Idolatry And 'Go Set a Watchman'

Maddie Crum

If Twitter can be seen as representative of broader cultural attitudes, the news surrounding Go Set a Watchman, a novel Harper Lee penned before To Kill a Mockingbird but guarded closely for decades, was received positively -- at first.

Most enthused responses weren't elicited by the content of Lee's story, which will be told from the vantage point of an adult Scout -- Mockingbird’s brave young protagonist. Instead, cheers sounded for the author, and for her first book, which so many of us associate with the halcyon days of summer reading assignments.

Tweeters responded to a BuzzFeed Community call...elTitles," indicating that the site's editors might not've been aware that the story -- more of a prequel than a sequel, according to Lee's editor at HarperCollins -- had already been written and named.

"Our idolization of authors often leads to a greedy quest to absorb everything they’ve produced, regardless of their personal wishes and, perhaps most importantly, the best interest of their storytelling legacies."Our collective knee-jerk reaction to the news is indicative of a larger problem in the publishing world: Our idolization of authors often leads to a greedy quest to absorb everything they’ve produced, regardless of their personal wishes and, perhaps most importantly, the best interest of their storytelling legacies.

The cult of the author can be seen on Pinterest boards and dating profiles. Loving Joan Didion is a s...n identity, so is quoting Hemingway. These habits are fine! Of all influential figures to enshrine or model oneself after, an author is far from the most egregious. The act becomes detrimental, though, when liking an author -- that is, how she is talked about, how he makes you feel -- eclipses the value of his or her work.

Elena Ferrante, the famously media-shy writer behind the Neopolitan novels, addresses this in a preview of her first-ev... interview: "It’s not the book that counts but the aura of its author. If the aura is already there, and the media reinforces it, the publishing world is happy to open its doors and the market is happy to welcome you. If it’s not there but the book miraculously sells, the media invents the author, so the writer ends up selling not only his work but also himself, his image."

Plenty of other literary behemoths have shirked from the spotlight for similar reasons; Thomas Pynchon said ‘recluse’ is code for “doesn’t talk to reporters,” and J.D. Salinger mostly kept to himself. But, in spite of his attempt to protect his unfinished or otherwise personal works from posthumous publication, we’ve allowed our fandom to get the better of us, and have released previously unseen short stories and a garish documentary about his life. Of course, not all posthumous works are the result of invaded privacy (although, notably, Kafka’s The Trial was). The Mysterious Strangerby Mark Twain, though cobbled together from unfinished works, provides insight into his views on morality, and The Pale King by David Foster Wallace was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in spite its assembly by Wallace’s editor.

"While posthumously published novels are granted room for error, Lee’s work has ostensibly been given her seal of approval, bringing her ability to judge literary merit into question if the book isn’t up to snuff."But while posthumously published novels are granted room for error -- even the best of them are usually publicized as collector’s items tragically left unfinished -- Lee’s work has ostensibly been given her seal of approval, bringing her ability to judge literary merit into question if the book isn’t up to snuff. In the unique case of Harper Lee, author worship isn’t offensive only in its undermining of her work, but also, potentially, of her personal wishes. Until very recently she was of the Ferrante camp: publicity-avoidant to the point of being deemed a recluse. In an interview given to ... years ago, Lee dictated that she will not release further materials, stating, "I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again." Why, then, is her publisher now claiming she's "happy as hell" about her unearthed earlier work? An interview with Lee's edit... Van Dusen, raised more questions than it answered.

Though Van Dusen was only made aware of Go Set a Watchman this week (he's yet to read the book), he confirms that Lee is "getting progressively deafer and more blind" after suffering a stroke in 2007. He suspects that she "just never told anybody about the book and then forgot it existed," and says "it’s very difficult to talk to her." This hazy ethical decision has led a writer for the Atlantic to conclude, "Perhaps Lee, alive but ill, is being treated in the way so many deceased authors are: as ideas rather than people, as brands and businesses rather than messy collections of doubts and desires."

So often works of literature begin with a seed of inspiration that grows into something barely reminiscent of its source. Of his most recent novel, The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides said, the idea of casting protagonist Madeleine as the story's nexus began when he was working on an entirely different book. So goes the writing process. But to treat the paths authors chose not to follow as completed works rather than pleasurable fan trivia devalues their artistic authority, and often disrespects their wishes.

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