Fussy’s favorites: Week of July 26, 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.

Big deals 

• Between the World and Me, The Shining Girls are coming to TV 

• Check out the 2020 Booker Prize longlist 

• Movie deals for books: Consent and Klara and the Sun 

• Film rights to "Sinkhole" go for a pretty penny 

Prolific writers

• Fussy interviews author David Wind 

• James Patterson names a heroine after a Mayo Clinic worker

Pandemic reading 

• Read an excerpt from Afterland 

• When epidemics and erotica collide

Politics 

• Behrouz Boochani receives refugee status after years in detention 

• The typo on Donald Trump Jr.'s next book cover has been fixed 

• Writers object to Saudi Arabia's bid to host a sci-fi convention