There are many descriptions of sexual encounters, but they are not written in an erotic style. The reader is not, I don’t think, drawn in to feel the excitement of the sexual behavior itself, and you can’t really identify with SFH. She’s a very unusual person! She’s someone who loved intense athletic competition and then felt completely dissatisfied living a normal life — in Madison, Wisconsin of all places — with a handsome, loving husband and a nice daughter. She repurposed her strongly physical, competitive spirit in the game of prostitution, in the place that — like the Olympics for an athlete — was the center of the world — Las Vegas.

Via Confession: I read the Suzy Favor Hamilton memoir @ Althouse.

By all accounts this manuscript was sent back to Lee many decades ago with a desire for changes. The changes became the loved Mockingbird story. Someone looked to make money and found the way to get this book into the hands of readers such as myself.

We all naturally desire more writings from Harper Lee. But there are times when we only get one gem and need to fondly recall it and treasure it. That is how it should have been had greed not overcome sensibility for the Lee estate.

Via “Go Set A Watchman” Should Never Have Been Published @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS