News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #96…

Item. Mockingbird follow-up. Well, well, yet another case of the media looking for scandal! It turns out that the sequel to Harper Lee’s classic is creating a scandal because the grown-up Scout, after living in NYC for some time, returns to Alabama to find old Atticus has become a racist bigot. I found To Kill a Mockingbird a rough ride—disorganized ups and downs as the two different stories unfolded (only the trial appeared in the movie)—so maybe I’ll like this one better. I don’t have any e...