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Casey Cep
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January 10 - January 23, 2021
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The what?
Harper Lee’s father died three days later, early in the morning on Palm Sunday.
Oh Atticus. 😢
with the publication of Mockingbird his fears about her chosen vocation had turned into pure pride.
That's wonderful. I was so glad when my mom got to see me get my first teaching job just a month before she died.
it included Lee herself.
Oh. Ick.
Although her voice could have been one of the most powerful ones in the country, she did not lend it to the movement,
What a damn shame she lacked the moral terpitude.
she
joked
about being a member of...
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Presidential Scholars;
OMG, I was one of these. 🙄
“be remembered as the one who spoke when good men remained silent, and the one who acted when good men did nothing.” But she herself did not speak out; she let her novel do the talking.
Jessica Mitford, Ian Fleming, John Fowles, Doris Lessing, Lillian Ross,
“He writes not to communicate with other people,” Lee said of any writer worth his salt, “but to communicate more assuredly with himself.”
I'm not even sure I understand this.
Manhattan. “I’m tired of fighting dope addicts and too old to pretend that NY is the center of the universe,”
“Harper Lee thrives, but at the expense of Nelle.”
The old tree-house friends walked around Second Avenue, talking in what Benson remembers was an almost private language, sweet and loving, like siblings.
“We are bound by a common anguish.”
they had been stolen from her apartment
Who would do that? I thought her sister made that up.
George Wallace
Ew, WHY him??
nightmare of Chicago,
Had to be the'68 convention
Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco,
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb,
But it was In Cold Blood that would make crime writing respectable.
Laura (1944)
That was true, and much the same could be said of the victims in most popular works of true crime that followed; except for accounts of domestic violence, not many of the murders described in those books were representative of violent crime in this country.
Lee, by contrast, found a case where the only white characters were the lawyers and law enforcement officers.
an unusual move for the genre even today,
the black characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are essential to the plot but hardly
as realized as their white co...
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crusading white attorney who was also profiting off black death;
That's what reason stuck in my craw. Why not stop representing someone who you know is a murderer??
Mary McCall Lee, known as Molly—had married a native, John Robert Chapman Jr., known as Bobby.
I see Southerners do the same thing the Irish do. -No one goes by their given name!
Calvin Trillin
Killings,
court reporter,
Like the scariest job to me. So stressful. Wasn't Georgia a stenographer?
“You wouldn’t think she had two nickels to rub together—she was dressed like a pauper,”
This would totally be me.
following Judge Avary
I didn't know court reporters followed judges.
Hank Williams had stayed in twenty-five years earlier when he came to Lake Martin to dry out.
owned by her niece’s husband, Bobby Chapman.
Was and like super-frugal?
JFK cocktail party story
Was this in the book?
What Radney did not know about the Corn Laws, she could supply for them both,
Whaaaa?
Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, and Robert E. Lee.
Ugh
the Maxwell House,
The Zoo or the Reverend's actual house?
Little Tom had outgrown being a homemade home plate when the family played kickball in the driveway,
Were they kicking balls at a baby??
the author’s retort tickled them all: “Nobody else has either.”
She was so quick-witted!
“didn’t care a whit about the way she looked.”
Except for that spell with "reducing" I do love this about her & try to emulate this quality.
like those men, she was defined by her work,
there’s no news in a newsroom.
seats.
OK. What is this? I thought it was just a saying.
Sardi’s,
saw her “politely correct a young man seated next to us who was moving his hand to the music in the wrong time signature.”
OMG like Peter Tork with the clapping. 😂 Maybe she was slightly in the spectrum... doesn't sound like it though.
she’d once found a rare edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the gardening section and where he found a first edition of Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding for a dollar.
😮❗❗
