Thalia Book Club: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 50th Anniversary Celebration - Readings, Discussion and Audience Q&A

De: Symphony Space

Narrado por: Stephen Colbert, Isaiah Sheffer, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mary McDonagh Murphy, Oskar Eustis, Libba Bray, Kurt Andersen

Performance playlist: Readings and conversation with Kurt Andersen, Libba Bray, Stephen Colbert, Oskar Eustis, Mary McDonagh Murphy, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Isaiah Sheffer, a discussion with the audience.

Authors and actors including Stephen Colbert, Libba Bray (award winning young-adult novelist Going Bovine, winner of 2010 Printz Award), Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director at The Public Theater), Kurt Andersen (novelist and Studio 360 Host), Jayne Anne Phillips (novelist and National Book Award finalist Lark & Termite), filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy (author of the upcoming book Scout, Atticus, and Boo), and others pay tribute to the Pulitzer prize-winning classic novel about racial injustice and loss of innocence in a small Southern town. One of the most taught -- and frequently challenged -- books of the last 50 years, the book was voted the best novel of the 20th century by librarians. The evening includes readings, discussion and audience Q&A.

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Where is the book?

Would you try another book from Harper Lee and/or the narrators?

I would love to buy the actual audiobook by Harper Lee with almost any narrator. Unfortunately the novel itself is not available through Audible.

What was most disappointing about Harper Lee’s story?

It was a speech about the novel

What three words best describe the narrators’s performance?

Live, celebratory, and a nice tribute.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

It had many redeeming qualities as a tribute to Harper Lee and the book, but it is important to read the novel itself before listening to a tribute to its author.

Any additional comments?

Had the actual audiobook of

A bitter but necessary pill to swallow

A classic story of good and evil and the elephant in the room. Why can't we name the sin that has no name? Why don't we see that the emperor's new clothes leave him naked?
In movie form it was a classic. In print or voice it reads thicker and more fragrant. I can feel the pulse of the words that issue from the characters, the meaning, the regret.
This for me was a significant impetus to involve myself in some form in the civil rights movement of the 60's. I knew that the elephant exposed in the South would lead to the elephant exposed elsewhere.

not to kill a mockingbird

thought I was getting the classic book but it is not. I did not enjoy this book at all. stopped listening after a couple chapters

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I found much of this to be kind of annoying. A group of liberal writers making a treasured classic into a 21 century political slog. Many were pretentious but I did enjoy the readings of the story itself. Only wish I could have heard the book in its entirety, but it is still as of yet unavailable.

Best Book Panel

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes! It is such an interesting cast of people discussing and celebrating 50th anniv of To Kill A Mockingbird.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration?

How it influenced the panel the first time they read it and a more recent re-read.

Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?

Steven Colbert was really very intelligent and emotional. He was not silly at all. It was a pleasant surprise.The other's are not so famous to me, but they ALL were wonderful.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Not a good film.

Any additional comments?

The live audience Q&A was poor audio quality and was a waste of time.