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Harper Lee's Sequel Brings Excitement & Worry

​Earlier this month, the publishing world was sent into a cataclysmic fit over news that Harper Lee would be publishing a companion work to her much beloved novel "To Kill a Mockingbird."The story of...

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Atticus Finch as a Racist: Listeners React

It's publication day for Harper Lee's controversial new book, "Go Set a Watchman." There are lots of unanswered questions, still, about whether Lee ever even wanted to publish the manuscript, which she...

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Takeaway Book Club: 'Go Set a Watchman' by Harper Lee

Click on the audio player above to hear this discussion.In this last week of August, we're turning our attention to two books about race in America that have sat at the top of the best-seller lists for...

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Author Harper Lee Dead at 89

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Harper Lee, author of the famed American novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died at the age of 89 in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.In 1961,...

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Harper Lee's New Novel

The day before the Harper Lee novel, Go Set a Watchman (Harper, 2015), is due to be published, Claire Suddath, staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, talks about the friend of the author who seems to...

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Harper Lee's Controversial 'Watchman' a Reminder of 'Painful History'

On Tuesday, the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird lost a little of its mystique. For 50 years, it was the only book author Harper Lee ever published, and since then, she's lived in relative seclusion...

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Ian McKellen, “Go Set a Watchman,” & Mac DeMarco

Ian McKellen has played Magneto in the “X-Men” movies and Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings,” but his latest role is a real biggie: Sherlock Holmes. Plus, Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” upends our...

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To Kill a Childhood Hero

You've probably heard about this new book that came out this week: it's called Go Set a Watchman, it's by Harper Lee — her second novel ever to be published, after To Kill a Mockingbird— and its...

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Harper Lee, author of American classic ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ dead at 89

Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper Lee died Friday at the age of 89. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesNelle Harper Lee, the author behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died...

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Remembering the life and legacy of Harper Lee

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: the loss of a literary legend reclusive in life, but renowned for crafting one of the great American novels.And to Jeffrey Brown.JEFFREY...

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When WQXR Hosted Harper Lee

Here, at the WQXR offices, we read about, watch and listen to a lot of classical music. We created the WQXR Whole Note as a place where every morning, Monday through Friday, we will share news, videos,...

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Harper Lee, In Her Own Words

Novelist Harper Lee, who died last week at the age of 89, was famously reclusive. She declined most interviews.But before she largely vanished from the public eye, Lee appeared on WQXR in 1964 to talk...

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