Fussy’s favorites: Week of December 9, 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.

Nobel Prize news

• Nobel literature laureates deliver their inaugural lectures

• Political figures and war journalists condemn Peter Handke's Nobel prize

• Sarajevo tells author Peter Handke: Stay out of our city

Want more drama?

• Fiction prize judge: No one on the panel read the entire shortlist

• Professor pushes back against library's 350-book checkout limit

Assorted awards

• "Existential" is Dictionary.com's word of the year

• "They" is Merriam-Webster's 2019 word of the year

• Congratulations to the Goodreads Choice Awards winners of 2019!

• Climate activist — and author — Greta Thunberg is TIME's Person of the Year

Adaptations of various kinds

• The House's report on its Trump investigation is now an audiobook

• Stephen King’s The Dark Half will become a movie ... again