Fussy’s favorites: Week of November 29, 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. 

Meet Fussy's authors

• Interview with Jamie Davis

• Interview with Lynda Filler

• Interview with Don Kennedy 

Awards season

• A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path wins weird-title award

• Best of: NPR’s favorite books, NYT’s top gift options

• The Prix Goncourt and Waterstones book of the year 

Deja vu

• "Pandemic" is Merriam-Webster's 2020 word of the year

• Dictionary.com also chooses "pandemic" as its word of the year 

Pop culture

• Actors boost nonprofit's effort to save Tolkien’s home

• Dolly Parton dishes on her reading habits

• Adaptations: Memorial Drive for TV, Jane Austen for kids