Fussy’s favorites: Week of October 11, 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. 

On the brighter side 

• Late-fee moratorium saves one British reader $10,000 

• Professor finds a 1634 printing of a Shakespeare play 

• Shortlists for the 2020 T.S. Eliot and Baillie Gifford prizes are out

Screen stuff 

• Terry Pratchett fans (and relatives) pan The Watch trailer 

• Amazon's Lord of the Rings seeks actors comfortable with nudity

• Watch the trailer for Netflix's Hillbilly Elegy adaptation

Politics past and present

• Former friend of Melania Trump is being sued over tell-all book

• Author: Soviets spied on George Orwell during Spanish Civil War

The not-so-great news 

• Study links simpler images to greater reading comprehension in kids

• Barnes & Noble tells customers that it was hacked

• Bill Bryson is "pretty likely" to retire from writing