Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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stage rights,
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That's the play I saw at the Ford Theater.
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He had championed what became known as the Radney Rule, which prevented candidates from running as a Democrat if they hadn’t supported the party’s nominees in the previous four years.
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Nice.
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“Daddy’s prized bill,”
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Did AC Lee propose/champion/pass this?
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A section of the stone wall that separated Nelle from Truman is still standing,
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their birthday visit to the archives,
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This is just so sweet & tender.
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Charles Shields, whose 2006 Mockingbird
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Marja Mills,
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Black Belt
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Never heard this reference outside of this book before
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee,
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Capote,
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Infamous.
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Brasfield
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The Reverend,
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Worth reading? Kinda shitty to use her title
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Tucked beside the entry for Harpers Ferry, Belyeu had found a card from Harper Lee dated June 11, 1978: it was the note she had written thanking the Cribbs for the cocktail party she had attended just before leaving town.
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What a find!!
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She is in frail health, nearly blind and paralyzed on the left side by a stroke.”
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So sad to think of.
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Pentateuchal in their plots and Pauline in their syntax,
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Wow
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Tonja Carter,
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Oh. HER. As I recall, a bully just trying to cash in.
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everyone in town assumed the book in question was The Reverend.
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Wish it had been
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the Radney Bowl.
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I kind of low key love this. Sounds very white though
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walking on sticks now.”
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Canes?
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a chapter of The Reverend.
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❗❗❗
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heard back from Tonja Carter that the aging author did not have the files and had no memory of her grandfather.
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I'm calling bullshit. Sounds like elder abuse. Kind of like what's happening to Nez right now.
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the original, unedited draft of Go Set a Watchman.
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Yeah, no. Everything needs a good editor.
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Peace and Goodwill Cemetery,
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“Willie J. Maxwell,”
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the Horseshoe Bend Motel, now a Days Inn.
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Russell Mills—the
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the Zoo.
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Alexander City Cemetery.
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Big Tom. John Tomas Radney
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eighty million years ago, a meteor the size of three football fields hurled itself from outer space into Alabama,
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old courthouse,
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Hillcrest Cemetery.
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Nelle Harper Lee
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the warranty for a tape recorder,
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Lol
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Returning his scrapbook forty years after he loaned it to Harper Lee
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❤❤❤
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who deleted one
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notable letter from this book and my life,
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Wonder what that's about... Passive aggressive?
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“How know?”
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Laurie,
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David Grann,
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Jamaica Kincaid,
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Ellenelle.
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??
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tolerated my love of words and willingness to use too many of them
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Reminds me of me
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Jason Isbell,
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Waht
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Feathers, “Catfights and Coffins”;
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Berry v. Macon County Board of Education.
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Harper Lee’s autobiographical essay “Christmas to Me”;
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Isabel Wilkerson’s Warmth of Other Suns
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Jesmyn Ward,