The Guardian reports that Harper Lee is suing the local museum in her Alabama hometown. The octogenarian author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who currently resides in an assisted-living facility, claims that the museum is profiting off her fame without providing her due compensation.
Harper Lee Sues Museum
“Qualities other than introspection”
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The Deep Also Impacts
Those of you out there who grew up in the 90s will remember that every disaster movie brought a slew of novelizations into bookstores. Even if the movie in question did badly, you knew that at least two adaptations of the script would pop up on shelves. At Hazlitt, Will Sloan wonders if the age of the novelization is over.
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Fug Life
For those who like their celebrity fashion with a voluptuous lashing of satire, this Fug's for you. Check out the maybe-not-so-pretty fashion blog Go Fug Yourself's Grammy Awards coverage--or lack of coverage, as was (quelle suprise!) the case with Britney Spears.
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Neither Magical, nor Realism; Discuss…
The New Republic is, to put it mildly, not chuffed about the new Isabel Allende.
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Interview With Charles McNair
Over at Bloom today, a lively Q&A with Charles McNair, whose Pickett's Charge was the subject of Kevin Hartnett's recent review here. In particular, McNair takes us through the harrowing blow by blow of his road to publication, the "sophomore jinx story" from a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author.
Launch Edan Lepucki
You have until midnight tomorrow to launch The Millions staff writer Edan Lepucki's novella, If You're Not Yet Like Me, which Ben Fountain calls "extraordinary." Don't miss your chance!
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