SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[Monte Davis]

And already clear from the trending that there'll be no shortage of
opinions (some very vehement). Certainly nobody seems hindered by not
knowing  Lee, her late sister/lawyer, her current lawyer, or more than a
few lines of some other netizen's version of five decades of background.
Everybody into the pool!

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:25 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just read that some are suspicious of the release - it comes 3 months
> after Lee's sister and lawyer passed away, who was fiercely protective
> of her work, especially since Lee has reportedly been in quite poor
> health and might not be of the mental fitness to know if an
> unscrupulous publisher was pulling a swifty on her. This is all just
> what I've read, mind, and all news to me. Does seem odd that an author
> would release a book half a century after writing it, when there would
> have been no shortage of opportunities in the decades since. But
> whaddyaknow.
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> > Same thing happened to a lot of authors in that era - probably today,
> too,  when a book shows a lot of promise but the editors/publishers are
> concerned with market forces (which is what pays the bills - for author and
> publisher, both).  So it gets "fixed" to suit their purposes.  -  See “A
> Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 1943.  First time novelists are most vulnerable.
> >
> >  "One of the major problems for scholars who work with twentieth-century
> American writing . . . is to come to terms with the alterations wrought on
> modern American literature by editors in trade houses" (72). Publishing in
> the United States was, since its inception, fueled mainly by a market
> economy rather than private patronage. This resulted in what Amy Kaplan, in
> The Social Construction of American Realism calls the "failed masterpiece.”
> > From -  American Authors and the Literary Marketplace by James West
> (1990).
> > https://web.njit.edu/~cjohnson/tree/pub/pub.htm
> >
> > ***
> > Becky
> >
> >> On Feb 3, 2015, at 8:29 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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