Fussy’s favorites: Week of October 14, 2019

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.

Hottest literary news

• We have two 2019 Booker Prize winners

• Controversy over Nobel and Booker Prize picks continues

• 2 of Australia's online booksellers stop selling Catch and Kill

• First-edition Harry Potter book sells for over $72,600

Best author interviews

• Memoirist Adrienne Brodeur: My mother asked me to help hide her affair

• Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge just wasn't done with me

Late literary figures

• Zurich James Joyce Foundation director: Author's body should stay here

• Bestselling literary critic Harold Bloom has died