Tuesday, July 14, 2015
There Might Be A Third Harper Lee Novel
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Harper Lee’s lawyer suggested there may be a manuscript of a third novel in the To Kill a Mockingbird author’s safe-deposit box.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
HarperCollins
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
HarperCollins
I decided then to take a closer look at those pages. I went to the safe-deposit box and pulled out the Lord & Taylor box. I began to thumb through its contents when I came across a title page that said: Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, York Avenue, New York, New York. I read enough of the first page to know this was not To Kill a Mockingbird. It opens with Scout, all grown up, returning to Alabama by train from her home in New York City. I thought the Watchman manuscript could have been the sequel to Mockingbird. And something else was in the Lord & Taylor box. The manuscript for Watchman was underneath a stack of a significant number of pages of another typed text.
Via wsj.com
The First Chapter Of "Go Set A Watchman" Will Break Your Heart
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, July 14, 2015
The SPOILERS at the start of this train ride will give you MAJOR feels.
Last week, Harper Lee gave fans of To Kill A Mockingbird an early sample of its sequel, Go Set A Watchman, by releasing its first chapter on The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.
Harper Collins
She's now a New Yorker, is still wearing pants, and is on her way to visit Atticus in Maycomb.
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8 Times SDCC Restored My Faith In Fandom
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, July 14, 2015
I went to my first San Diego Comic-Con and came back a new woman.
Hello friends. I have gathered you all here today to proudly announce that I am no longer a Comic-Con virgin. I went, I saw, I conquered, and now I stand before you a new woman. In my 26 years of fangirling, the only other time I've felt this kind of rush, this kind of deep camaraderie was the first time I stumbled upon fictionalley.org. And even that headlong dive into my first (and forever) fandom was checked quickly by insidious 'ship wars, the Big Name Fan/regular fan divide and the feeling of being lost in a crowd, a lurker looking in at a party that I was only tangentially part of.
Over the years my fandoms and my love for them grew, but so did my awareness of the ways they fucked up. Misogyny, racism, even just plain-old schoolyard bullying among fans now constantly temper the unbridled love I have for my favorite fandoms. And that's a great thing. That means for every fanboy who insists that stormtroopers can't be black, there's a hundred fangirls who are aware of the problems in their favorite works and are incredibly happy to see a world they love reflect the one that they actually live in. But it does make it hard sometimes to reach that place of deep unproblematic love that we all once had as young fangirls. That's how I felt anyway, until I went to SDCC.
Now I've been to Comic-Cons before, and I'm a member of the press, so I've definitely stuttered all over my words while meeting my favorite actors and gazed slackjawed as my favorite comic book artists did personalized sketches for me. I've waited in disgustingly long lines waiting for insanely packed panels and talked to random strangers just to marvel at their cosplays. I've drunkenly declared each and every Comic-Con party the best one ever, no really, I totally mean it this time. But by the time I go home and settle back into the internet, the rush of the weekend is gone and I'm back tagging my problematic faves with #SweetSummerChild.
But there was something just a little more magical about San Diego.
Because I have the audacity to be a woman of color who writes on the internet about things that men consider to be theirs, the internet for me often becomes a cesspool of comments ranging from the illiterate to the genuinely life-threatening. Often the one shining light amid all of that is a small band of internet friends. Other women, other writers, other fangirls whom I've never met in real life but who know me weirdly well anyway because we often find ourselves in the same dark corner. There's nothing else like the sweet, sweet bond that comes from being told that there's no place for us here, and that our love and our way of expressing that love for fandom is somehow less valid than everybody else's.
Meeting those women, those writers, in real life in San Diego was so incredibly validating. I finally matched soft-spoken voices and booming laughs to the sharp and cutting words they use on Twitter. I was gifted with their insightful thoughts and experience about how to get the most out of the minefield that is the press room. And most importantly we got to collectively side-eye and laugh at the shade that is occasionally thrown our way in press rooms by men who think the size and quantity of their camera equipment makes them better than everybody else in the room. There is nothing more satisfying than being part of a group of professionals who support each other and getting to experience it in more than 140 characters at a time was immensely rewarding. Thank you ladies, for forever keeping me from logging off permanently.
Monday, July 13, 2015
Can We Guess Your Relationship Status Based On Your "Game Of Thrones" Opinions?
Posted by Unknown on Monday, July 13, 2015
“You’re mine, and I’m yours.” (Spoilers if you’re not caught up.)
The Most Shocking Twists From "Go Set A Watchman"
Posted by Unknown on Monday, July 13, 2015
A lot has changed in Maycomb County.
The sequel to Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird, called Go Set a Watchman, comes out tomorrow.
In it, Scout returns to her hometown 20 years after the events of the first book.
Harper
Arya Stark And Harry Potter Have Been Hanging Out Together
Posted by Unknown on Monday, July 13, 2015
Along with Gilly from Game of Thrones and Clara Oswald from Doctor Who. RIP us.
HBO
Warner Bros. Pictures
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Which Quidditch Player Should You Date?
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, July 12, 2015
Would you prefer to get it on with Oliver Wood or drink tea with Cho Chang?
J.K. Rowling Is The Only Wimbledon Commentator You Ever Need
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, July 12, 2015
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Atticus Finch Is A Racist In "To Kill A Mockingbird" Sequel
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, July 11, 2015
The beloved lawyer from To Kill A Mockingbird is depicted as a cantankerous old bigot in Harper Lee’s new novel, Go Set a Watchman.
Actors Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Brock Peters as Tom Robinson in the film To Kill a Mockingbird.
Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images
Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning 1960 novel focuses on 6-year-old Scout Finch, Atticus' daughter, and tells the story of a trial for Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Atticus is Robinson's attorney and is portrayed as a moral and decent man who believes in justice.
Atticus' moral rectitude was further cemented by Gregory Peck's iconic 1962 performance in the film adaptation of the book.
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