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Remembering Harper Lee

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Remembering Harper Lee

Harper Lee, literary giant and author of the beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird, has passed away in Monroeville, Alabama, at the age of 89. Her death...

10 Powerful Moments in Go Set a Watchman

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10 Powerful Moments in Go Set a Watchman

The publication of Go Set a Watchman was one of the most exciting and unexpected literary events in recent memory. Now that we’ve all had a chance to...

Change Comes to Maycomb in Harper Lee’s Must-Read Go Set a Watchman

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Change Comes to Maycomb in Harper Lee’s Must-Read Go Set a Watchman

By now we all know the origin story of To Kill a Mockingbird: an editor read Harper Lee’s manuscript for Go Set a Watchman, was most drawn to the...

July’s Top Picks In Fiction

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July’s Top Picks In Fiction

July’s top picks include a book we’ve all been anticipating for months, if not years. And in nine other exciting new novels and short story...

11 Ways to Celebrate the Release of Go Set a Watchman

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11 Ways to Celebrate the Release of Go Set a Watchman

Ever since the announcement that a new book by Harper Lee would hit shelves in July, readers everywhere have been holding their collective breath,...

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Our Favorite Lines from To Kill a Mockingbird

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Our Favorite Lines from To Kill a Mockingbird

Why are quotations so important to us? Is it because we feel less alone when we encounter an author who’s a kindred spirit? Is it because books are...

14 Things You Didn’t Know About Harper Lee and Truman Capote’s Friendship

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14 Things You Didn’t Know About Harper Lee and Truman Capote’s Friendship

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron—the history of...

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Everything We Know About Go Set a Watchman So Far

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Everything We Know About Go Set a Watchman So Far

We’re almost there. Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman will be out on July 14, and now that the warm weather’s here, July seems like it’s...

12 Things You Didn’t Know About Harper Lee

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12 Things You Didn’t Know About Harper Lee

It’s interesting that Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird and the soon-to-be released Go Set a Watchman, is...

The Go Set a Watchman Cover Has Been Revealed

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The Go Set a Watchman Cover Has Been Revealed

In February, readers everywhere were thrilled to learn that national treasure Harper Lee is set to publish a new novel, Go Set a Watchman. Lee says Go...

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10 Famous Authors on To Kill Mockingbird

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10 Famous Authors on To Kill Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s fans are legion, and famous authors number among them. Those who love her admire her writing style, her dimensional and deeply moral...

7 Things You’ll Notice When You Reread To Kill a Mockingbird

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7 Things You’ll Notice When You Reread To Kill a Mockingbird

Like many readers, I first encountered To Kill a Mockingbird in school and adored it. Still, I never returned to its pages later in life. But with Harper...