Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Michael Silverblatt in conversation with Bookworm producer Connie Alvarez about the recent book by the late author. Harper Lee died today at the age of 89.

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0:00.0	Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.
0:22.4	The podcast about the unknown.
0:24.2	On the KCRW iTunes page.
0:30.2	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannon Foundation.
0:34.1	Boots.
0:39.3	Where would we be without boos? Where would we be without good?
0:42.3	No, Tzuberg.
0:43.3	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without boos From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
1:01.1	Every once in a while, something comes up, and we want to cover it on Bookworm, and there's no easy way to do it.
1:09.7	Harper Lee has just given permission for her early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird to be published.
1:18.5	It was called Go Set a Watchman.
1:21.5	She spent two years or more going from her early draft, Go Setta Watchman, to kill a mockingbird.
1:33.4	She had with her, aiding her, a wonderful editor from J.P. Lippincott, her publisher.
1:42.3	She probably had a bit of advice from friends once suspects that among her
1:48.1	advisors were Truman Capote. There could be few better advisors because I think what Capote
1:59.0	said to Harper Lee is this novel is about childhood.
2:03.6	Begin it in childhood.
2:07.6	Don't begin with Scout as an adult.
2:11.6	Take it to the childhood.
2:14.6	And I think the editor agreed, the version we now have that's just been published
2:20.4	does not have Boo Radley. It doesn't have a lot of the beloved figures that we're used to
2:28.7	from To Kill a Mockingbird if we grew up with To Kill a a mockingbird. Now, listeners, the truth is,
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