Fussy’s favorites: Week of January 5, 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.

Deaths

• Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation, has died 

• Charles Sprawson, author of cult classic on swimming, has died

Unearthed

• Museum curator finds a rare copy of an 1883 gay-rights essay 

• Long-lost footage of Japanese novelist never actually disappeared

New releases to note

• Find out why there's such fuss over Topics of Conversation

• Why Such a Fun Age’s author is already adapting it for the screen 

• The Smithsonian is launching graphic novels for all ages

Drama

• Auschwitz Memorial Museum reminds John Boyne he's not perfect, either 

• Author: Pakistani authorities seized copies of my novel, threatened my publisher

• Embattled president of Romance Writers of America resigns

Awards news

• Meet the 2019 Costa Book Awards category winners

• Romance Writers of America cancels RITA contest

• Lee Child is revealed as one of the 2020 Booker Prize judges