SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Mark, if you've found some place to disappear to that protects you from stones tossed by the outraged literary majority, may I join you there, as a refuge for my heretical belief that The Great Gatsby, while a perfectly fine novel, falls short (for me - sorry! SORRY!!!) of being included on any greatest-novels-of-all-times lists?

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 3, 2015 11:44 AM
>To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY
>
>I like you, Mark. And, when all is said and/or done, isn't that all
>that really matters?
>
>On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:34 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:
>>>> http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BOOKS_HARPER_LEE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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