Fussy’s favorites: Week of September 20, 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. 

Cause for celebration 

• Milan Kundera "joyfully" accepts top Czech literary award 

• Meet the 2020 5 Under 35 recipients 

• J.K. Rowling's latest book breaks Robert Galbraith sales record 

• Meet the writers of TIME's 2020 most influential people list 

• The Maldives — and their bookstore in a luxury resort — are reopening

Scandals 

• You tell us: Bookmarks or dog-eared pages? 

• Book and movie about Sherlock Holmes's sister prompt a lawsuit 

• CNN: Edward Snowden agrees to $5 million forfeiture plan 

• Ex-National Security Council official: Review of Bolton's book was mishandled 

The obituaries 

• Literary deaths: Winston Groom and Terry Goodkind 

• Which famous author also taught Ruth Bader Ginsburg? 

• Author Sam McBratney has died