Fussy’s favorites: Week of July 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.  

The Octavia E. Butler section 

• Adaptations of Parable of the Sower, What Belongs to You 

• Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling is being adapted 

Audio versions 

• A Stephen King short story will become a podcast 

• Erik Larson is branching out into fiction this fall

UK updates

• Publisher: No comment on how many books Harry is writing 

• Here's the 2021 Booker Prize longlist 

Famous owners of literature

• Buy a copy of The Prophet that Elvis Presley gave as a gift 

• Hobby Lobby agrees to hand over Gilgamesh Dream Tablet 

Not according to plan

• Failure to launch: How the COVID-19 pandemic affected authors 

• Yes, LeVar Burton was nervous while hosting Jeopardy!