Fussy’s favorites: Week of January 18, 2021

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. 

Amanda Gorman 

• Former national youth poet laureate will serve as inaugural poet 

• Amanda Gorman has two books coming out this fall

• The honors for inaugural poet Amanda Gorman keep rolling in 

Other upcoming releases 

• Senator Hawley finds a new publisher for "The Tyranny of Big Tech"

• Teen who bonded with Biden over stutters has written a book

Honoring women in literature 

• Melinda Gates donates $250K to a new literary prize 

• New US stamp honors author Ursula K. Le Guin 

• Mattel releases a Maya Angelou Barbie doll 

Screen time 

• New production company to adapt Who Fears Death, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

• Watch the trailer for The Luminaries, speculate about White Noise