Fussy’s favorites: Week of February 16, 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.

Mixed mediums

• Margaret Atwood's dystopian trilogy will become a ballet

• Dan Brown will release an album along with his picture book

• When tech and books collide

The late greats

• True Grit author Charles Portis has died

• One last chat with Mary Higgins Clark

• Amelia Earhart: Pilot and poet

From the archives

• 1859 novel by a free black woman is finding new life

• Why the Voynich manuscript is “pure poison” for scholars

The famous and infamous

• LeBron James will publish a picture book in August

• Judge: Weinstein juror can read novels about predatory relationships

Awards

• Here's the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize shortlist

• Here are the 2019 Nebula Award finalists