Fussy’s favorites: Week of March 29, 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. 

Writers under fire

• Book by Captain Underpants author is pulled over racist images 

• One man's unpopular opinion: Dante wasn't all that great

Author accomplishments

• Bernardine Evaristo is writing a memoir 

• History is made with this year's International Booker longlist

   

• A sequel to John Lewis's memoir trilogy is coming out in August

Screen time

• Sources: George R.R. Martin signs a lucrative deal with HBO 

• Superhero movies will receive a Shakespearean twist  

• Hulu is adapting Sarah J. Maas's Court Of Thorns And Roses series 

The dearly departed 

• Remembering Beverly Cleary 

• Children's author and illustrator Joan Walsh Anglund has died 

• Son: John le Carré changed his citizenship over Brexit