On the Beat with Harper Lee

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How do you write the history of a book that was never written, by an author who, if not exactly a recluse, was more determined than most not to publicize her life or writing process? And how do you make that mystery worth reading when its conclusion is widely known? These questions loom in Casey Cep’s remarkable, thoroughly researched Furious Hours, an account of the true-crime book that Harper Lee intended to write but ultimately abandoned more than two decades after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird had made her a household name.

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Blog Johan Veenstra: Veertig exemplaoren van Pake en beppe Pluus

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Via Et Vene, daor a’k even wezen mos, bin ’k om de middag henne naor uutgeveri’je Bornmeer op ’e Gediek gaon. Daor he’k veertig exemplaoren van et Stellingwarver Nijntje-boekien Pake en beppe Pluus weghaeld en die in Berkoop naor de Schrieversronte brocht. Doe ’k weer thuuskwam was tuunman Arjen mit zien maot drok in de tuun an ’t wark. Alles leit d’r now weer mooi en netties bi’j.

Lês fierder by Johan Veenstra

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