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Leave it to Oprah to start a revolutionary American trend: reading. Chicagoans are now reading en masse Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. And former librarian Laura Bush is using the clout of her new job to get a few notable authors to read out loud in Washington. As host of the first National Book Festival, this weekend, the First Lady will oversee an all-day affair on the Capitol lawn with readings, music, food and lessons on bookbinding. Whom has Bush picked as opening acts for this bookfest? John Adams biographer David McCullough, novelist Gail Godwin (Evensong), playwright...
...friendships have the quality of Mark Twain boyhoods - not entirely a matter of Tom Sawyer's rapscallion innocence, but something of boyhood bitterly shadowed, as "Huckleberry Finn" was, by violence, alcoholism, hatred, vicious stupidity and the precocious knowledge of evil. Harper Lee had the atmosphere in "To Kill a Mockingbird...
...only a few have made good on the threat. According to the American Library Association, more than 5,000 complaints were recorded at school and public libraries over the past 10 years. "The Catcher in the Rye," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" were among the titles adults found most offensive...
...FAVORITE MOVIES: Metropolitan, Vanya on 42nd Street, A Fish Called Wanda, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Broadcast News, Animal House, The Last Picture Show, Manhattan, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blade Runner, Richard III (‘95), Moonstruck, The Big Chill, Pulp Fiction, Tootsie...
...Lower Primates, they read every insipid thing you scrawled, and they still snicker every time they pass by in the yard. You've become something of a school-wide joke; you're the fool who scribbled "symbolism," "why?" and "interesting" on every page of To Kill a Mockingbird. Take a tip, my friend: Mend your ways. Lose the hi-liter. The rest of us are laughing...