Fussy’s favorites: Week of May 16, 2021

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. 

Future bestsellers?

• John le Carré's final novel will be published this fall 

• When Justice Sleeps will have sequels and a TV adaptation

Author interviews 

• Linguist keeps it clean in discussing his book on profanity 

• Author Q&A: Karen Witemeyer

Archival material

• New book comes directly from Jane Austen's kitchen 

• Roald Dahl's response to a fan letter is going up for auction 

• Novel rediscovered decades after author's death is a bestseller now 

Scandalous

• Woody Allen's publisher picks up Blake Bailey's new book 

• Read Isaac Asimov's limericks ... if you dare