Fussy’s favorites: Week of March 22, 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. 

Author notes 

• Read author Douglas Adams's pep talk to himself 

• Earlier draft of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl is discovered

Sad stories  

• Founder of Cricket magazine has passed away 

• Prince Harry writes the foreword to a book about grief

• How author Sara Gruen's quest to free a man went tragically wrong 

• Author Larry McMurtry has died

Quick reads 

• Here's a new short story by Brandon Taylor 

• Excerpt of The Impudent Ones 

Missives from Middle-earth 

• Group comes up short in bid to buy Tolkien house 

• The Lord of the Rings is coming out with J.R.R. Tolkien's art in it 

Developing stories 

• UK watchdog is also scrutinizing Penguin-Simon & Schuster merger

• Have you read Firekeeper's Daughter yet?