Fussy’s favorites: Week of March 8, 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.

Major accomplishments

• Author David Gaughran will receive a special SFWA award

• Here are the finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards

• Sri Lankan author claims the world record for most book endings

• Congrats to the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award winners!

Not-so-great news

• Librarian finds a modern cookie in a 16th-century book

• Questionable books about coronavirus are popping up on Amazon

Books you can’t afford

• Miniature handmade book by J.K. Rowling heads to auction 

• Recently recovered 15th-century manuscript is headed to auction 

Exciting excerpts

• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

And in other news …

• French publisher: We still want to publish Woody Allen's memoir

• Mystery author Barbara Neely dies at age 78