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Casey Cep
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January 10 - January 23, 2021
stage rights,
That's the play I saw at the Ford Theater.
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.
Nice.
“Daddy’s prized bill,”
Did AC Lee propose/champion/pass this?
A section of the stone wall that separated Nelle from Truman is still standing,
their birthday visit to the archives,
This is just so sweet & tender.
Charles Shields, whose 2006 Mockingbird
Marja Mills,
Black Belt
Never heard this reference outside of this book before
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee,
Capote,
Infamous.
Brasfield
The Reverend,
Worth reading? Kinda shitty to use her title
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.
What a find!!
She is in frail health, nearly blind and paralyzed on the left side by a stroke.”
So sad to think of.
Pentateuchal in their plots and Pauline in their syntax,
Wow
Tonja Carter,
Oh. HER. As I recall, a bully just trying to cash in.
everyone in town assumed the book in question was The Reverend.
Wish it had been
the Radney Bowl.
I kind of low key love this. Sounds very white though
walking on sticks now.”
Canes?
a chapter of The Reverend.
❗❗❗
heard back from Tonja Carter that the aging author did not have the files and had no memory of her grandfather.
I'm calling bullshit. Sounds like elder abuse. Kind of like what's happening to Nez right now.
the original, unedited draft of Go Set a Watchman.
Yeah, no. Everything needs a good editor.
Peace and Goodwill Cemetery,
“Willie J. Maxwell,”
the Horseshoe Bend Motel, now a Days Inn.
Russell Mills—the
the Zoo.
Alexander City Cemetery.
Big Tom. John Tomas Radney
eighty million years ago, a meteor the size of three football fields hurled itself from outer space into Alabama,
old courthouse,
Hillcrest Cemetery.
Nelle Harper Lee
the warranty for a tape recorder,
Lol
Returning his scrapbook forty years after he loaned it to Harper Lee
❤❤❤
who deleted one
notable letter from this book and my life,
Wonder what that's about... Passive aggressive?
“How know?”
Laurie,
David Grann,
Jamaica Kincaid,
Ellenelle.
??
tolerated my love of words and willingness to use too many of them
Reminds me of me
Jason Isbell,
Waht
Feathers, “Catfights and Coffins”;
Berry v. Macon County Board of Education.
Harper Lee’s autobiographical essay “Christmas to Me”;
Isabel Wilkerson’s Warmth of Other Suns
Jesmyn Ward,
