Harper Lee is suing her literary agent over royalties for To Kill A Mockingbird.
What Would Atticus Do?
Alone in the Dark
For the most part, your average writer's retreat is a pretty cushy place. Its amenities are designed to let its guests turn their energies to the difficulties of artistic work. At The Paris Review Daily, Rex Weiner writes a dispatch from a different sort of retreat -- a haunted house for writers in Mexico. To read about a more traditional experience, check out our own Michael Bourne on his time at Bread Loaf.
Jacobs’s Centennial
Yesterday, Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, would have turned 100. Some used the anniversary to commemorate her life and others argued that we need to stop deifying her.
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Ould Soul
You may have heard that the actor Peter O’Toole passed away in London on Saturday. As a tribute, Longform republished a 1963 profile of O'Toole by Gay Talese, who accompanied the Lawrence of Arabia star on a trip to Ireland.
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Tuesday Links
The LBC has named its next pick. It's a fantastic, epic, funny book. Visit the blog for all the details.Forbes rounds up the most expensive books sold at auction in 2006. The top ten include five atlases, but according to the slide show that accompanies the story, a Shakespeare First Folio brought in the most: $5.1 million.Darby's blog turns two and he cleverly uses this fact as an excuse to link to some Swedish librarians."Which f**king road would you live on?"So sad. A spelling bee training book with typos.
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Atticus would take this case.
The novelist Harper Lee, and the screenplay writer Horton Foote–the man who changed my life–both created luminous works of art.
That anyone should try to steal the copyright is beneath contempt.
And really, really bad karma.