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February 21 · Issue #32 · View online
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We lost a titan this week. Harper Lee passed away Friday in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Included in this week’s roundup are two brief looks at her nonfiction work, plus two more stories of the usual best-of stripe. Happy Reading! -Lucas
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Love - In Other Words
Here we have Harper Lee’s first published article–a look at love’s many forms. “Love, then is a paradox: to have it, we must give it.” - Harper Lee | Vogue
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Some Things Should Happen on Soft Pages, Not Cold Metal
This one time, Harper Lee wrote a letter to Oprah about books. Eventually, it found its way into O Magazine. “Do you remember when you learned to read, or like me, can you not even remember a time when you didn’t know how?” - Harper Lee | Letters of Note
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The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
How Tumblr’s most popular teen comedy geniuses struck it rich—then lost it all. “Each social media network creates a particular kind of teenage star.” - Elspeth Reeve | New Republic |
What Pigeons Teach Us About Love
The sweet, avian romance of Harold and Maude. “Last spring I came to know a pair of pigeons.” - Brandon Keim | Nautilus
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The Friend by Matthew Teague
His wife was just thirty-four. They had two little girls. The cancer was everywhere, and the parts of dying that nobody talks about were about to start. His best friend came to help out for a couple weeks. And he never left. “We don’t tell each other the truth about dying, as a people. Not real dying. Real dying, regular and mundane dying, is so hard and so ugly that it becomes the worst thing of all: It’s grotesque. It’s undignified.” - Matthew Teague | Esquire
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