Aaron Sorkin interviewed about adapting To Kill A Mockingbird for stage

This writer started reading New Yorker magazine, each week, from age 16. Now age 53 this writer renewed a subscription (12 weeks for $6 online and periodical). What does this do for each reader on this 7- year young website? You now gain shareable content from an esteemed source. What does one gain by reading the New Yorker each week for 37 years? Insight and exposure to the week’s international news, new authors, poets, artists in almost all mediums. Better conversation skills for the office Holiday party or the family dinner. I would argue that if each and every American suspended any and all preconceptions about what the New Yorker Magazine is and began to read an article, poem, to peruse the cartoons they would be like me, hooked for a minimum of a decade to the weekly periodical. Perhaps this fear keeps sane Americans from picking up a copy of the New Yorker from the magazine stalls at B&N.

As Aaron Sorkin began writing his theatrical adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” he started to have misgivings about the portrayal of certain characters. While much cherished, the book has a racial dynamic that Sorkin felt he had to update for a 2018 audience. The result was a lawsuit from Harper Lee’s literary executor. Plus, Senator Amy Klobuchar on how to win as a Democrat in the age of Trump; and a wave machine creating a perfect, addictive wave will change the future of the old sport of surfing.

 

Andrew Sorkin is my favorite screenplay writer. You choose the format TV or film and find me a better writer writing today. Think of your favorite films and television programs and tell me that at least one of Andrew sorkin’s screenplays is not on your list. From West wing to Molly’s game to network notice the dialogue.