SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[rich]

what do you mean 'humanizing the Viet Cong, Iraqis and Afghans'? there's
been a fair amount of attempts at some sort of reconciliation with the
Vietnamese, ex-soldiers going back and interacting with the people there in
a positive way, e.g. something tells me we wont see any of that in iraq or
afghanistan, at least not for decades, if at all.
we here in the US need to come to grips with the fallout from these wars. I
dont think any attempt at valuing life can happen on other than a personal
level, not from nation states. also, there's such a small % of participants
in the the wars in iraq and Afghanistan compared to Vietnam, so the war has
largely been absent from many who may think twice about what we've done
over there
and i think an overarching novel that can encapsulate such a diffuse
culture as stands today if feasible. i hope i'm wrong

rich

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> As to teachability and a clear timely moral message, one has to consider
> Uncle Tom's Cabin which was the biggest best seller of it's time and
> immensely influential. This  story and its message is the same as any story
> that successfully humanizes the people who have been expertly culturally
> dispossessed of their humanity. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is
> a less confrontational version but widely taught for similar reasons,
> exceptionally strong writing not least. Will their be a great American
> novel sweeping the nation, humanizing the Viet Cong, Iraqis, Afghans? Or
> have we transcended the idea of common humanity and graduated to the status
> of superhuman?
> On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Monte Davis wrote:
>
> > 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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