Fussy’s favorites: Week of November 9, 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

• Ruby Bridges, who desegregated New Orleans schools, has a new book

• Get to know Fussy's Vicki Lewis Thompson

• Meet the bird who saved World War I's Lost Battalion 

Revisiting the classics 

• The best fifty Draculas, according to Literary Hub

• The story behind The Secret Garden and why it's so relevant today 

• Donations pour in for proposed Virginia Woolf statue

Quick hits

• Read a newly published short story by Edith Wharton 

• The story behind Megan Rapinoe’s memoir, One Life

• Read a poem from Margaret Atwood's new collection

Award updates

• The 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards are in the semifinals

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the Women's Prize "winner of winners" 

• Barack Obama will speak at this year's Booker Prize ceremony

Not-so-cheerful news

• The possible real-life Holly Golightly has died 

• "Lockdown" is Collins Dictionary's word of the year