Fussy’s favorites: Week of August 8, 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.  

New releases 

• Read an excerpt from In the Country of Others

• How the mundane (and glamorous) inspired Louis Edwards’s new novel 

• Review: Run to read John Lewis’s posthumously published work

Hot topics 

• American Booksellers Association explains how Blackout mixup happened 

• Publishing headaches: Political scandals and racism accusations 

• Philip Pullman clarifies his support for author of now-controversial memoir

Save the date

• COVID comparisons to Stephen King novels are more apt than ever 

• Dolly Parton's first novel comes out next year -- with an album 

Adaptations 

• What makes certain books so tempting for TV producers? 

• Jack Kerouac's musings on creativity have inspired a podcast