Fussy’s favorites: Week of April 5, 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.

Sneak peeks

• Read an excerpt from Afterlife 

• Read an excerpt from Redhead by the Side of the Road 

The virtual red carpet

• Sea Monsters wins the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 

• Hugo finalists announced; Pulitzers pushed back 

The classics section

• Professor identifies main author of 1592 play co-written by Shakespeare

• It's official: Agatha Christie is the top novelist of all time 

• Prison where Oscar Wilde did time won't become an arts center 

• See the woman who likely inspired Lydia Bennet 

Coronavirus and literature

• You’re cordially invited to online readings

• Publishers change tune on journalist's novel about a pandemic