Fussy’s favorites: The August 2020 edition

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

Meet Fussy's authors

• Jasper T. Scott 

• Nayden Kostov 

• Edmund A.M. Batara 

• Bronwyn Leroux 

• J.A. Jackson 

• Phyllis Edgerly Ring 

• Amy Vansant 

• Betsy Ashton 

• Alisa Woods 

Awards and accomplishments

• Here are the 2020 Hugo Award winners 

• Mother and daughter are both on an Irish literary prize's shortlist

• See Libby's top ten most checked out ebooks and audiobooks 

• Half of the 2020 Not the Booker Prize shortlist is out 

• Ocean Vuong will add a book to the Future Library

Excerpts

• Life of a Klansman by Edward Ball 

• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

Oops 

• John Boyne and Sean Hannity’s bookish boo-boos 

• Scholars: Hundreds of typos in Hemingway's works aren't his fault 

• Reaction to the Reclaim Her Name book campaign is somewhat mixed