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

by Casey Cep

“I have a horrible feeling,” she continued, “that this will be the making of me.”

She was really a somebody. People were really quite frightened of her.”

Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. The only good thing about Introductions is that in some cases they delay the dose to come. Mockingbird still says what it has to say; it has managed to survive the years without preamble.”