Fussy’s favorites: Week of November 4, 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.

Disappointing news

• Novelist Ernest J. Gaines has died

• Writers criticize Paris Review's choice of author to honor

• James Joyce's "House of the Dead" to become a hostel

Blasts from the past

• Follow the yellow brick road around Chicago's Humboldt Park

• Why books we read as kids stick with us through adulthood

• The 100 novels that shaped literary experts' lives

• New book: English literature had female writers earlier than you think

Memorable memoirs

• Friend's memoir reveals romance with Whitney Houston

• DOJ: Book on Trump administration may violate nondisclosure agreements

• Turkish author of prison memoir has been released from jail

Just for fun

• You tell us: What book's ending completely shocked you?

• Collins Dictionary reveals its word of the year for 2019