I'm glad the article mentioned the likelihood that Harper Lee neither authorized nor wanted WATCHMAN to be published.
I'm curious about Salinger. He's been dead a few years now and I always thought his heirs would jump on the posthumous publication gravy train, but so far there's been nothing. Perhaps those tales of a vault full of new material were wishful thinking.
LOTR isn't, exactly, a sequel to The Hobbit, however. And Second Foundation was the third book in the cycle [(Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), Second Foundation (1953)]. Walter Miller didn't exactly wait to publish a sequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz...technically, he never finished it.
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I'm glad the article mentioned the likelihood that Harper Lee neither authorized nor wanted WATCHMAN to be published.
I'm curious about Salinger. He's been dead a few years now and I always thought his heirs would jump on the posthumous publication gravy train, but so far there's been nothing. Perhaps those tales of a vault full of new material were wishful thinking.
I've wondered about Salinger, too, Deb. I guess the heirs don't need the money. Or there are no manuscripts.
Or, my favorite scenario, every single line of the mountain of manuscripts reads, "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy."
35 years: LITTLE BIG MAN (1964) and RETURN OF LITTLE BIG MAN (1999).
I've had RETURN OF LITTLE BIG MAN for nearly 15 years and still haven't read it.
Bill: You're fine, there was a massive drop-off in content and quality during those 35 years.
I was afraid of that. Probably that's why I haven't read it.
I'm going to get pedantic here...
LOTR isn't, exactly, a sequel to The Hobbit, however.
And Second Foundation was the third book in the cycle [(Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), Second Foundation (1953)].
Walter Miller didn't exactly wait to publish a sequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz...technically, he never finished it.
I thought pretty much the same thing in all three cases, Don.
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