| Harper Lee is publishing a "sequel" to 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' her first novel in more than 50 years | Earthshaking, mindboggling, mother-of-God literary news: Harper Lee, the reclusive author of the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird, is publishing her first novel in 55 years.
Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that Go Set a Watchman, a novel "the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside," will be released July 14, the Associated Press reports.
+ Lee's editor talked to New York magazine about the "new" book: "It's actually more of a prequel. She wrote it before To Kill a Mockingbird, but the new book takes place after the events of the book that was published."
+ "[Go Set a Watchman] features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort," Lee said in a statement issued by Harper. "My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel (what became To Kill a Mockingbird) from the point of view of the young Scout."
+ The Atlantic's Megan Garber finds some sadness in the sequel: "The announcement that the author will publish a new novel is thrilling to fans — but also contradicts what the author has long said she wants."
+ This feature on the slow decline of Harper Lee is a beautiful, masterful exposition of the removed author's interregnum years. Read it on the subway on your way to work today (or on the way home).
+ Good talk. We'll just leave you with Gregory Peck now:
 | | | TransAsia commercial flight crashes over highway, second in under a year | A commercial plane belonging to Taiwanese carrier TransAsia Airways and carrying 53 passengers and five crew crash-landed in a river in Taipei after clipping a bridge shortly after takeoff, the Associated Press reports.
Officials told Reuters that 19 people were killed in the crash and two dozen remain missing.
+ This is the second crash for TransAsia in under a year, Bloomberg notes: A turboprop plane crashed over Taiwan’s outlying Penghu islands in July of last year, killing 48 people, after the pilots "couldn’t find the runway," according to the accident report.
+ Motorists on a nearby highway captured photos and video of the crash:
 | | | Jordan vows "earth-shaking" response after Islamic State shows burning of hostage | Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage, a killing that shocked the world and prompted Jordan to promise an "earth-shaking" response, Reuters reports.
+ The Jordanian government executed al-Qaida prisoners Sadjedah al-Rishawi and Ziyad al-Karbouli early Wednesday in retribution, a security official told the Associated Press.
+ The execution came just days after a video appeared to show the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by an Islamic State militant. | | |
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