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Sean is super nervous, and Joda just plain doesn't understand! Join this intrepid duo as they read and talk about pretty much the most beloved American novel of all time - Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." Together they'll talk about why this book is so great, and answer the question "Why Did I Read This?"You can find Why Did I Read this on Facebook at facebook.com/whydidireadthisshow and follow them on Twitter @whydidireadthis

We cure Karen of her status of American Monster as she finally reads Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. She clearly had some facts wrong. Next up: Something lighter with Have a Heart, Cupid Delany by Ellen Leroe. Content Notes: Racism, violence, Around 49:00/50:00 the word is said in reference to a book title. Bonus links: Layla Saad's Me and White Supremacy, the workbook is available at the link. https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/

Comedian Maeve Higgins on Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, being an immigrant, and finding humor even in the most trying of times. To learn more about the books we discussed in this week's episode, check out Jay McInerney's Bright Lights Big City, Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City, Maeve Higgins' Maeve in America, Roald Dahl's Matilda, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and James and the Giant Peach, C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. You can find transcripts of this episode and past ones on LitHub. Please fill out our survey at bit.ly/butthatsanothersurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conversation with Patterson Hood about his favorite books. Includes discussion of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biographies, Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic of American literature, and for good reason. The follow-up-slash-first-draft, Go Set a Watchman, doesn't have the same impact, but it's a fascinating look at how books change during the editing process. This show was recorded live in Philadelphia, PA. Thanks to everyone who came out!

Ever wondered what makes a story a classic? Or how many jiggers of literary tropes it takes to mix a mockingbird? Well, the Priority team may not have all of the answers, but that's never stopped them. In their third foray into art and culture, Caitie and Max visit and revisit Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Caitie rediscovers some important moments, the things that make Mockingbird a real gem across her years of "required reading." Max finds the novel more entertaining than he'd expected. (Then again, his pre-reading impressions included "something-something-racism" and "someone named Scout.") Thoughtful cultural critics they are, Caitie and Max decide that maybe it’s not about how much tequila is in your mockingbird. Maybe it's more important that we keep questioning the classics and looking for what’s useful in all those books we were supposed to have read.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/spec-003-david-gutersons-march-2015-address/ In this podcast, the third in our new series of BCB Bainbridge Island specials, we offer award-winning local author David Guterson's reflections on the writing of Snow Falling on Cedars, from a talk delivered at Bainbridge Performing Arts on March 22nd, 2015. This talk is introduced by Kate Carruthers, Director of BPA's Book-It Theater production of Snow Falling on Cedars. As part of their March presentation of Snow Falling on Cedars, Bainbridge Performing Arts invited Guterson to give a special presentation prior to a matinee performance of the play. Reading Snow Falling on Cedars twenty years later, its author encountered an unexpected mixture of emotions. In this talk he shared these, along with his thoughts on the influences, ideals, and ambitions that led to its writing and what the book means to him now. It took Guterson five years to write Snow Falling on Cedars, in part because he was teaching full time at Bainbridge High School, and in part because of the extensive research he did on salmon fishing, strawberry farming and the internment. To describe the anti-Japanese hysteria that prevailed in the 1940's, he steeped himself in about 600 pages of oral histories compiled by elderly internees for the Bainbridge Island Japanese-American Community Association.  And while the fictitious San Piedro Island of Snow Falling on Cedars drifts at some distance from Bainbridge -- on a real map of Puget Sound it would lie in the San Juan Islands -- it is populated by some authentic Bainbridge characters. The literary model for the book, however, was more remote -- Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the 1960 novel Guterson regularly assigned to his high school English classes.  Guterson, then 39, received the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Snow Falling on Cedars – a remarkable achievement for a first novel. Even more remarkable was the fact that it went on to be not only a critical but also a commercial success: with over four millions copies sold, it has generated a Hollywood film, a stage play, and countless high school student essays. Ironically, it is his novel that is now showing up in high school curricula – if it hasn’t been banned. Listen here to hear Guterson's reflections as he looks back 20-30 years at the young man who wrote his book and how it all came to be.   Credits:  BPA audio tech Alex King; BCB audio tech and audio editor Lyssa Danehy de Hart; BCB publisher Diane Walker.

A true classic, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is one of those books we should have read years ago. For the two of you who aren't familiar, it's a story about a lot of things: the trial of an innocent black man; growing up in small-town Alabama during the Depression; and growing up. It's made all the more interesting by Lee herself, who to date has never written another novel.

Meera Syal talks to Mark Lawson about her favourite book, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Includes archive selections: The Reverend Thomas Lane Butts profiles Harper Lee's hometown, Moroeville, Alabama; Gregory Peck on playing Atticus Finch; Lee Child on the darker side of To Kill a Mockingbird; a reading from the book; Meera Syal on growing up as an outsider. Full archive details available at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.

The Big Read returns to the Orange County Library System this March. This year, Central Florida will be reading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Check out this video to get information on The Big Read and all the fantastic programs OCLS has planned for this event. (1:25) (.mp4 video format)