Like “Gone with the Wind”, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was, until now, the only book by the writer of one of the great books of the century. And now, fifty years later, there is to be a sequel.

[There has been] the surprise announcement that To Kill a Mockingbird will have its long-awaited sequel: Go Set a Watchman, about the adventures of a grown-up Scout as she returns to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit Atticus. That a novel more than 60 years in the making would finally be published was the result, Lee said in a statement delivered through her publisher, HarperCollins, of some crazy serendipity: The book’s long-lost manuscript was discovered by her lawyer, the statement says, “in a secure location where it had been affixed to an original typescript of To Kill a Mockingbird.”

What, me suspicious? But I hope it’s true. The only other remarkable part in the article for me was that Harper Lee did not think of herself as Scout, but as Bo. Don’t get much time for fiction nowadays, but this one I will read.

TURNS OUT I’M NOT ALONE: And since the announcement:

Author Harper Lee’s latest novel, “Go Set a Watchman,” is the No. 1 bestselling book on Amazon Wednesday after publisher HarperCollins announced on Tuesday its July 14 release date. . . .

HarperCollins, the world’s second-largest book publisher, plans to print 2 million copies, according to The Washington Post.