Fussy’s favorites: Week of August 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.  

Releases to watch for

• Learn about the next novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy 

• Miss Marple is coming back in September 2022

• Salman Rushdie’s next work will come out on Substack

Excerpts

• Three Rooms by Jo Hamya

• Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir

Brain games 

• Half of survey respondents: We read books that'll make us look smart 

• How sci-fi writers are helping the French military train

Mixed mediums 

• The short story behind the movie Candyman 

• Listen to actor Christopher Lee read Sherlock Holmes stories 

• Alicia Keys is turning her song "Girl on Fire" into a graphic novel

• See who will star in Netflix's Lady Chatterley's Lover