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Harper Lee in 2007 — images via Getty and animal-kid.com

AHHH WE’RE SO EXCITED!  You’ve probably heard by now that Harper Lee is set to release her second novel this summer, after more than 50 years. The Guardian is reporting that the book, called Go Set a Watchman, has Scout returning to her hometown of Maycomb as an adult.

“She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood,” her publisher, Penguin Random House, said in announcement.

Lee wrote it in the mid-1950s — and then set it aside, and, amazingly, forgot it. Through her publisher, she tells readers that “after much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.”

Go Set a Watchman will be released on July 14, under the William Heinemann imprint, which originally published To Kill a Mockingbird.

b.e.fitzgerald || Art is a Facebook status about your winter break.

Dig this.

(via thatkindofwoman)

 Damn straight.

Dear Prudence, 23 October 2014:

Laverne Cox Is The Woman We’ve Been Waiting For

“It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.” 

Ben Lerner

Today in Book News, Ben Lerner talks to our buddy Parul Sehgal about writing fiction, former Poet Laureate Robert Haas wins the $100,000 Wallace Stevens prize for “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry” from the Academy of American Poets, and a new study finds that female journalists get disproportionate amounts of abuse online.

Read more here.

Readers won’t stop sending the Bad Advisor their real-ass questions to answer, so the Bad Advisor is periodically going to try her hand at answering them.

Congratulations, there is no good way to tell people to clean up the shit they don’t want to clean up without pissing them off some, because people be taking all kinds of exception when other people be pointing out the shit they’re doing that falls into a category other than “exactly what I want to be doing when and how I want to be doing it.”

Unfortunately, cohabitation.

Here’s what you do do: you make a fucking chore chart like you’re all a bunch of children, because even adult roommates who live together are a bunch of children, because humanity. You put your name on it and her name on it and you list the shit you both need to do in a timely fashion every week (or whenever) and then you buy some fucking gold stars and give yourselves some gold stars when you do your shit on time. That way nobody can argue about not having done their shit/having to do too much shit.