Fussy’s favorites: Week of February 2, 2020

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our reader blog this week.

The scandal roundup

• Macmillan CEO fields questions at American Library Association meeting

• American Dirt publisher agrees to include more Latinx voices

• My Dark Vanessa publisher, author deny memoirist's claims of plagiarism

Bookstore news

• Musician Patti Smith donates to burglarized bookstore

• Barnes & Noble pulls the plug on Diverse Editions after backlash

Politics … sort of

• Curtis Sittenfeld talks about her inspiration for Rodham

• Literary agents for A Warning will refute theory on Anonymous's identity

The late greats

• Remembering Mary Higgins Clark

• How Charles Dickens ended up being buried in Westminster Abbey

• Charles Dickens loved detectives, hated plagiarists