You should write how the coffee order to the characters changes from "To Kill a Mockingbird" and then in "Go Set a Watchmen"... It'll be interesting to see if their coffee order remains the same.

We’ve gotten a couple of these, and here is our (specifically Jill’s) answer: We have an Atticus post and will not be changing the Atticus post, first and foremost because it is already written and we don’t repeat character orders, but more importantly because the Atticus of Go Set a Watchman is a separate entity from the Atticus of To Kill A Mockingbird. As far as it appears, Go Set a Watchman is not a sequel to Mockingbird but an earlier, less complete draft of what would go on to become a great novel. We don’t do characters from drafts of works, especially because the characters in those works do not accurately represent their finalized counterparts. If we did a Watchman version of the Atticus post, I fear that would be validating the Watchman portrayal of Atticus Finch as a literary character, something I am not comfortable doing (speaking as the person who wrote the Atticus post).

This is probably a longer, more complicated answer then what you were going for, and I’m sorry about that. The Watchman debate is a very interesting one, and it brings up a lot of questions about the publishing world as well as the literary one, and since this is Literary Starbucks, after all, I thought it worth discussing.

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