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The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next
Bill Schutt, a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and former biology professor, has just put out his third book: Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans. (Two of...
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Read the very first reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Sixty-three years ago today, a young Alabama writer by the name of Nelle Harper Lee published her debut novel: a Southern Gothic-adjacent bildungsroman about racial injustice and familial love in the...
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“Who Are Your People?” A Reading List of Strong, Spirited Southern Ladies
If you grow up in the South, as I did, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll be asked, “Who are your people?” whenever you meet another Southerner—as if once they’ve located you in the context of...
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Sophie Ward on Jane Eyre, Macho Sluts, and To Kill a Mockingbird
Welcome to the Book Marks Questionnaire, where we ask authors questions about the books that have shaped them. This week, we spoke to the author of Love and Other Thought Experiments, Sophie Ward. *...
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Why is everyone still naming their babies “Atticus”?
I mean . . . we all know about Go Set a Watchman, right? But despite the fact that the Greatest Dad in Literary History may have turned out to be a racist (at least in the mind of his creator), people...
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Who Are Some of the Best Kid Narrators in Literature?
The thirteen-year-old protagonist of my novel, We Begin At The End, is stoic and heroic, hot-headed and humorous and unflinchingly protective of her broken family. She’s also a child struggling, and...
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The city depicted in To Kill a Mockingbird just elected its first Black mayor.
When Charles Andrew was a boy in Monroeville, a city in Alabama that today numbers under 6,000 residents, he used to watch the 1962 film adaption of To Kill a Mockingbird in the town’s segregated,...
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Hari Kunzru is Never Going to Read To Kill a Mockingbird
Hari Kunzru’s novel, Red Pill, is out now, so we asked him a few questions about writing habits, influences, and the books he wished he had written. * Who do you most wish would read your book? There...
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The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee’s bestselling literary classic To Kill a Mockingbird has caused no end of conflict—mainly in PTA meetings, of course, but also on the internet, the endless PTA meeting of our damned...
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To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway failed Scout.
The Shubert Theatre was a sea of chinos and button downs. I was surrounded by law school graduation presents. Behind me, an older gentleman was lecturing his young son on the importance of what he...
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How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch
When publishers first decided to print Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, they only ordered a conservative first printing of 5,000 copies. All of those sold so quickly after its release in the summer...
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A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1960s
Some books are flashes in the pan, read for entertainment and then left on a bus seat for the next lucky person to pick up and enjoy, forgotten by most after their season has passed. Others stick...
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Literary Classics Retold As Two-Panel Comics
The following highly efficient summaries are from Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Probably Didn’t by John Atkinson. Not recommended for use in study....
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How a Christmas Present Gave Harper Lee the Time to Write To Kill a Mockingbird
Like the Christ child himself, Atticus Finch was born on Christmas. It was 1956, and Nelle Harper Lee would not be heading home to Alabama for the holidays. She couldn’t get time off from her job as an...
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A Twang or a Drawl? The Art of the Audiobook Southern Accent
Southern accents are like hot sauces: dozens of varieties that can be difficult to distinguish, but they can be subtle or heavy-handed; they can add color or be a one-note distraction. Some creep up on...
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Harper Lee and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
The last year of Harper Lee’s life led the public through a maze of conflicting emotions. First there was the excitement about the new book, then the questions about whether Lee had really exercised...
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Five Books Making News This Week: Second Acts and Elegies
Two literary supernovas, each with iconic first novels that sold tens of millions, died on Friday, triggering an outpouring of sadness trending on Twitter #HarperLee #UmbertoEco. A Pulitzer Prize...
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Will ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Spoil ‘Mockingbird’?
The July 14 publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman is, indisputably, news. The reclusive author, now 89, was never expected to follow up on her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a...
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