Apparently, the National Endowment for the Arts' literature director is really, really devoted to his job. He's trying to get all the residents of a 128-person town to read To Kill a Mockingbird, and if they don't, he'll eat a copy of the book. Maybe it makes me a bad person, but having already read the book a couple of times, I'd be tempted to hold out just to watch him do it. Hey, he offered...

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