Fussy’s favorites: Week of April 12, 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. 

Save the dates 

• Ottessa Moshfegh's next novel comes out in summer 2022 

• Ron Howard and his brother have written a family memoir

• J.K. Rowling will publish a Christmas story this fall

• Full version of The Man Who Lived Underground to see new light 

• Cover reveals: Beautiful World, Where Are You and State of Terror

Screen time

• Watch the 1991 Soviet movie adaptation of Lord of the Rings

• Hugh Laurie to adapt Agatha Christie's Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 

• Natalie Portman will star in an Elena Ferrante book adaptation

Bad actors

• Cuomo staffers: We didn't volunteer to work on governor's memoir 

• Scammers steal Rathbones Folio prize money

Potpourri

• Author Q&A: Sandra Wendel 

• You can stay in the cowshed on Jane Austen's brother's estate