The rediscovery and forthcoming publication of Harper Lee’s GO SET A WATCHMAN dominated Tuesday’s cultural news cycle, as excitement over the novel, said to have been written in the 1950s and set 20 years after the events depicted in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, was played against some skepticism over Lee’s current condition and how the manuscript was found. Two representatives from Lee’s publisher Harper Collins shared thoughts and background with the media. Harper vp, publisher Jonathan Burnham told NBC the company “instantly read it, devoured it” while asserting his confidence the manuscript was, in fact, Lee’s: “Everyone had believed it to been lost, […]