This is a fascinating true crime story that revolves around three people: a reverend who was accused of multiple murders, the lawyer that defended him, and the author that wanted to tell their story. The author was Harper Lee, and the story of Reverend Willie Maxwell was to be the subject of her second, long-awaited …
On Tuesday February 3, it was announced that Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, will publish Go Set a Watchman, a 304-page novel featuring characters from Harper’s debut– and thus far, famously only– novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, set 20 years later in the same fictional Southern town. Although as of the writing of this post …
“Before great artists such as Kurt Vonnegut, Louis CK, George Carlin, the Coen Brothers, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Richard Pryor, Charlie Kaufman, Buster Keaton . . . there was grandfather Twain to beget them. All American literature, and most world literature, gets filtered through these pages.”—Stephen, Ravenna Third Place, Seattle. Buy The Complete Short Stories …
