Fussy’s favorites: Week of January 25, 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. 

New work from old favorites 

• Read an excerpt from Anthony Doerr’s next novel 

• Amanda Gorman will recite a poem at the Super Bowl 

• Moneyball and The Big Short author is writing about COVID 

Roll out the red carpet 

• Here are the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists 

• Meet the 2021 Newbery and Caldecott medal winners 

• Here are the 2020 T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Book of the Year winners 

• Meet the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe award nominees 

• Canadian literary award relaunched as the Atwood Gibson Prize 

Word nerds 

• Check out the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction 

• Merriam-Webster adds more COVID words (and many others) to dictionary

The screen age  

• Writer: Here's how the internet has changed novels

• The Hollywood Reporter: Harry Potter show is in the works 

• Nora Roberts "appalled" by fans' reaction to casting of Alyssa Milano