Fussy’s favorites: Week of April 12, 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.

Recent and upcoming releases

• Lois Lowry's new work explores themes of connection 

• Review: Apropos of Nothing has its faults and charms 

• Alex Trebek's memoir will come out in July 

New takes on existing works

• Spooky tale from Frances Hodgson Burnett will appear in anthology 

• Why one author was drawn to the "dislikable" Mary Bennet 

• Vanity Fair previews the upcoming movie adaptation of Dune 

Free reads

• Read an excerpt from Sharks in the Time of Saviors

• Here are the 2020 Read the World free ebooks! 

Coronavirus in literature

• City Lights Bookstore blows past GoFundMe goal

• Corporate emails about coronavirus become a popular poem 

• Oxford English Dictionary makes early update with coronavirus words

• Chilean author Luis Sepúlveda has died of COVID-19