In my opinion, Lee seems like she just wants to be left alone. Why her publishers didn't wait until she dies (and a few more years after, until it's "okay") to release this novel is beyond me. If someone's going to take some shitty thing I wrote back in junior high and make money off it, please, at least wait until I'm not around to see it crash and burn.
The incredibly famous author of To Kill a Mockingbird has just released her second book - though it is rather controversial whether or not she actually released it. At 88 years old, publicly-shy Harper Lee doesn't seem to have a set opinion on her forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman. There was a point in my life (when I was about 14) that I would be ecstatic to see anything I wrote published; now, if any of my early pieces (and some current ones) hit the newsstands, I would probably die of embarrassment.
In my opinion, Lee seems like she just wants to be left alone. Why her publishers didn't wait until she dies (and a few more years after, until it's "okay") to release this novel is beyond me. If someone's going to take some shitty thing I wrote back in junior high and make money off it, please, at least wait until I'm not around to see it crash and burn.
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Peter
4/3/2015 10:46:59 pm
I like how you relate this to your own writing and how you would be mortified if someone published something you wrote when you were younger. I, too, would be unable to live in a world where young me was published so if, until her late 80's Harper Lee wanted this manuscript to remain unread, maybe we should respect that. I really hope that she is fully aware of the novel's release, but something tells me otherwise and that the publisher should be criticized for valuing money over a sweet old woman's interests.
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