Fussy’s favorites: Week of March 22, 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.

Reasons to celebrate

• Lost Children Archive wins the Rathbones Folio Prize

• Ruchika Tomar has won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel 

• Congrats to the 2020 Whiting Award winners 

• Happy 20th anniversary to Because of Winn-Dixie

New reading material

• Indie publisher releases Woody Allen's Apropos of Nothing

• Enjoy another excerpt from The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin 

• Books about solitude that aren't necessarily about quarantines

Coronavirus — fact and fiction

• How classic novels would've closed in the time of social distancing

• Want $3 off your next ebook? Pick Amazon Prime's no-rush shipping 

The sad stuff

• We might not have a Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2020

• The illustrator of the Asterix comics has died

• Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally has died