SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[Monte Davis]

I agree with you about TKAM -- but it was perfectly timed w/r/t the civil
rights movement, and remains a quintessentially *teachable* novel (cf.
Huckleberry Finn) for teens who are ready to connect books to their own
emerging ethics, and teachers eager to promote that. It blends just the
right amount of simple feel-good "I stand with Scout and Atticus against
prejudice w/r/t Boo Radley and Tom Robinson" with just the right amount of
more challenging "...but these things get complicated."

I suspect that teachability played a significant part in creating
"classics" long before public education and the modern publishing-curricula
complex.

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am one of the few readers in this country, and Alice gave me the
> best argument against me,
> that thinks TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is much weaker as a novel than as a
> political act.
> Scout doesn't work for me fully; Lee got that adult Scout from this
> novel too much into it
> in my contrary opinion. But nobody believes me, and some don't like me.
>
> I'm disappearing now. (for awhile)
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This will be a very interesting and historic publishing event. One
> > thing it could focus on is the mind of an Editor:
> > read the publication history and you will learn how MOCKINGBIRD would
> > not be MOCKINGBIRD without him.
> > He is the one who told her that it should be her pov. With which we
> > readers could feel sympathy (young) while we identify.
> > It was a brilliant COMMMERCIAL decision.
> >
> > YET, it may not have been published by Lippincott as, basically, the
> > whole SALES AND MARKETING department (but for the heroically honorable
> > SALES DIRECTOR) said
> > it would not sell...'we can't sell a copy in the South", etc....
> >
> > but that SALES DIRECTOR said, "I don't care if we don't sell any", we
> > should publish it because....MATTERS.
> >
> > Lippincott was the publisher of V. as we may have forgotten.
> >
> > Sales will BE SO HUGE....the advance selling and hyping will be all
> > over everything until Bastille Day....this is ALL OVER my FB, twitter
> > feed and Monroe would not miss it,
> > of course....
> >
> > Will Day One, Two sales rival Harry Potter's 10+ Millions?
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
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