SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[Mark Kohut]

Yeahp.


On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> 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:
>> >>
>> >> http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BOOKS_HARPER_LEE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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