Fussy’s favorites: Week of October 18, 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. 

Author interviews

• Ann Patchett talks about her new children's book

• Dean Koontz: Don't worry about me running out of story ideas 

• Author explains how she decided to write "The Undocumented Americans"

Your future plans

• Hostel plans for James Joyce's "House of the Dead" move forward

• Bookstore in Taiwan really wants you to focus on the books

• Coming next spring: A Mary Shelley-inspired board game 

From page to screen

• HBO holds off on adaptation of Americanah

• We still aren't caught up on our TV and movie adaptations of books

• Here's a teaser for the TV version of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad

History and historical artifacts

• The writers who were caught up in the Red Scare

• Edgar Allan Poe's letter asking for money finally yields a large sum 

• Author Toni Morrison’s Manhattan loft goes up for sale