SECOND HARPER LEE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY

[Monte Davis]

>(presumably) with her blessing

Ah,  but that's the crux. Lee is senile, and charges are flying that (1)
she never wanted this published, and (2) 'twould never have happened had
not her sister and long-time lawyer died, opening the field to this other
exploitative shyster blah blah. One of America's favorite authors, fear of
aging, mistrust of lawyers... it's got tempest in a  teapot written all
over it

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> @ least it's being published (hopefully) in her lifetime.  And
> (presumably) w/ her blessing.
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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