Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

by Casey Cep

It’s easy to forget these days, but George Wallace was a Democrat; the tectonic plates of the parties hadn’t yet shifted on race, and the GOP was still reviled in the South as the party of Lincoln, so segregationists and integrationists alike ran as Democrats.

a never-ending self-exploration for the writer, “an exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”

“I’m tired of fighting dope addicts and too old to pretend that NY is the center of the universe,” she joked.

Saint Teresa of Ávila: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”

As Kierkegaard observed, we live forward but comprehend backward;