To Kill a Literary Legacy?
For nearly 55 years, the elusive Harper Lee has been celebrated for writing one of the great American novels, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Do we really need—or want—to read the sequel?
Joanna Scutts
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Joanna Scutts is an arts and culture critic based in Astoria, New York. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker online, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal and more, and she is at work on a book about single women and self-help culture in the 1930s. Follow her @life_savour
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