Books and Coffee: To Kill a Mockingbird at 50 October 26, 2010

Discussion led by: Robert Campbell, Concordia University Ann Arbor Department of English.

The 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has prompted diverse responses about the book's message and status. Is it still popular because so many baby-boomers remember reading it in the 1960s (nostalgia)? Is it kept on life-support by its popularity as an assigned text in high school English classrooms? Does its representation of the South, of race, of women hold up in the post-everything 21st century? Bring your copy and quote your favorite (or least favorite) passages.

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