wasn't really looking forward to any of the inevitable thinkpieces that try to blow your mind by arguing that a beloved classic is actually, wait for it, overrated!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
there was an interview on NPR the other day with one of Lee's close friends who visits her in her assisted living facility and he said she has no diminished mental facility, but she is almost blind. But he doubted that she could be manipulated into signing anything. Who knows.
― akm, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
The Guardian's arts coverage has gotten so random lately (for inst "reviewer" of Scientology doc decides that victimization by C of S=comedy), that I'm taking indefinite leave from their thoughtful clickbait.
― dow, Friday, 6 February 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Sarah C doesn't overdo on her opinion and says she is looking forward to the bk anyway so considering this is The Guardian it wasn't too bad.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 February 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! I'm sure they'll lure me back to clickpieces one of these days.
― dow, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
in my driver's ed class we were shown the car crash parts of FACES OF DEATH― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, February 6, 2015 3:04 AM
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:02 (nine years ago) link
that sounds kinda screwed up! but i've never seen that movie myself
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
it's like the worst benny hill episode ever
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 7 February 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
Better than DEATH OF FACES---worst Behind The Music-based TV movie ever.
― dow, Saturday, 7 February 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
Harper Lee to nosey journalist: "Go away!"
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/05/harper-lee-journalist-go-away-to-kill-a-mockingbird-sequel-go-set-a-watchman?CMP=fb_us
― akm, Thursday, 5 March 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
at least he got an autograph
― akm, Thursday, 5 March 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
uhh...
"Ms. Lee — known to many as Nelle, her legal first name — had a stroke in 2007 and has severe hearing and vision problems. But friends who visit her regularly say she can communicate well and hold lengthy conversations if visitors yell in her ear or write questions down for her to read under a special machine. (A black marker is kept in her room for this purpose.)"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/arts/artsspecial/harper-lees-ability-to-consent-to-new-book-continues-to-be-questioned.html?_r=0
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Friday, 13 March 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
the whole thing is depressing
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Friday, 13 March 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah, even if she turns out to be somewhat "coherent" (as they say) i highly doubt she would have OK'd the release of this book without some undue pressure from people who stand to make $$ from it. sad.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 13 March 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
that reporter's Harper Lee biography painted a picture of someone who wouldn't do something like this. And she seemed pretty leery of the entire publishing industry in that book, too.
― Robert Earl Hughes (dandydonweiner), Friday, 13 March 2015 01:54 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/13/living/feat-harper-lee-kill-a-mockingbird-elder-abuse/index.html
that settles that?
― akm, Friday, 13 March 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
had to LOL at this in the times story:
The writer Marja Mills, who lived next to the Lee sisters in Monroeville for about 18 months beginning in the fall of 2004 and wrote a book about the experience, “The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee,”
it gets the point across i suppose but jesus what a witless title
― in-house pickle program (m coleman), Saturday, 14 March 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
To Kill an Albatross? The 800 Pound Mockingbird? The Mockingbird in the Room? Mockingbird is the Word?
Bird Up?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/books/harper-lee-go-set-a-watchman-may-have-been-found-earlier-than-thought.html
plot thickens, again
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 2 July 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
whole situ is v weird & confusing (at least to me)
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 July 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/books/review-harper-lees-go-set-a-watchman-gives-atticus-finch-a-dark-side.html?_r=0
Wtf
― Treeship, Saturday, 11 July 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
Shockingly, in Ms. Lee’s long-awaited novel, “Go Set a Watchman” (due out Tuesday), Atticus is a racist who once attended a Klan meeting, who says things like “The Negroes down here are still in their childhood as a people.” Or asks his daughter: “Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?”
― Treeship, Saturday, 11 July 2015 03:35 (eight years ago) link
Apparently this is more of an early draft of Mockingbird than a sequel. This Atticus is like a prototype. Very weird it's being published
― Treeship, Saturday, 11 July 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Scout is shocked to find, during her trip home, that her beloved father, who taught her everything she knows about fairness and compassion, has been affiliating with raving anti-integration, anti-black crazies, and the reader shares her horror and confusion. How could the saintly Atticus — described early in the book in much the same terms as he is in “Mockingbird” — suddenly emerge as a bigot? Suggestions about changing times and the polarizing effects of the civil rights movement seem insufficient when it comes to explaining such a radical change, and the reader, like Scout, cannot help feeling baffled and distressed.
closest to in i've been yet
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 11 July 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
two friends in college used to call me Patticus Finch
― Treeship, Saturday, 11 July 2015 04:50 (eight years ago) link
i feel ambivalent about this now
welcome to February 2015
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Saturday, 11 July 2015 08:23 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Fej5kQd.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
My wife read that Laura Ingalls Wilder "Pioneer Girl" book, which is essentially an early draft of what became "Little House on the Prairie," and she found it very rewarding. They probably should have done something like that here. Rather than release it with any fanfare just snuck it out as an early draft of "Mockingbird." Also, they should have waited for Lee to be dead.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
Good essay:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/sweet-home-alabama
(Lee's) Southernness, however much it is now the material of cliché, is still the most pleasing thing about the book—the kind of easy, Agee and McCullers Southernness (as against Tennessee Williams’s more Gothic version) that was as much a part of the postwar American novel as Jewishness, of which it was the alternative construction. Jews (in Bellow, Malamud, early Roth) were urban, worried, and compellingly neurotic; Southerners (in Capote, McCullers, Harper Lee) were rural, carefree, and absolutely crazy. As always with such things, neither construction makes sense unless you see the missing central panel that both are reacting to: the Wasp ascendancy, only just about to be called so—that average American whiteness from which Southern drinking and Jewish schmalz alike could seem welcome refuges.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
RIP
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
never read the new one but it's hard to overstate the impact that mockingbird had on american culture
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
wait really?
aw man :(
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
― bored at work (snoball), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
:(
rip harper
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 February 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
what a fiasco with go set a watchman. such a blemish, horrible to see her be taken advantage of like that
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 February 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
my son's 7th grade English class just did a whole multi-week segment on To Kill A Mockingbird and connections to the civil rights movement.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 19 February 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link