Fussy’s favorites: Week of July 11, 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.  

Anniversaries 

• Like Henry David Thoreau? Thank his sister Sophia 

• What the first reviewers thought of The Catcher in the Rye

Memorabilia big and small 

• Mark Twain's final home is on the market 

• Donation enables France to keep a Marquis de Sade manuscript

• Read Shirley Jackson's love letters to her future husband 

Great accomplishments 

• Meet the multitalented 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee champ 

• Publishers Weekly calculates the bestsellers of 2021 (so far) 

The British section

• Online exhibit explores the bond between British royals and the Bard 

• This recently returned book has actually outlasted its library 

• From baker to International Booker

In memorial 

• Author Julia Quinn loses her father and sister in a car crash