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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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“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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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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