Fussy’s favorites: Week of October 25, 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 with Fussy ...

• Russell Rowland

• Christa Nardi

• Urcelia Teixeira

• Geoffrey M. Cooper

... and with other news sources

• Shuggie Bain author goes from fashion designer to literary darling

• How Don DeLillo’s The Silence isn't really a COVID novel

Literary tourism

• Welsh resort pays homage to poet Dylan Thomas 

• A 500-year-old Irish manuscript is returning home

COVID-related news ...

• Cry for help results in a record weekend for the Strand bookstore

• Shakespeare and Company bookstore calls out for orders, too 

... and non-pandemic news

• Here are the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal longlists

• Study: Literary fiction and popular fiction both benefit us, in differing ways

• Anonymous no longer: A Warning author reveals his name