News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #99…

Item. Go Set a Watchman. Harper Lee’s first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird has enjoyed a lot of sales. The publisher’s probably celebrating. I compare this phenomenon to the Fifty Shades one: readers are curious. But some are also irate. Their beloved Atticus turned out to be a racist bigot and that genteel South isn’t so genteel. I’m not surprised some people are turned off. Some people don’t like to see real-life problems (racism in America, especially the South) portrayed in fiction, no ma...