Fussy’s favorites: Week of November 7, 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. 

History class 

• Happy first-publication anniversary to Robert Frost! 

• What Old English words can teach us about the Anglo-Saxons' lives 

• Today in history: Catch-22 reviews, Lady Chatterley’s Lover sales

On the lighter side ...

• Cast your vote for the 2021 Oddest Book Title of the Year 

• Buy a personalized postcard from an author to benefit charity

• Note to students: Ocean Vuong's DMs are apparently open

... and heavier stuff

• 2 Israeli bookstores are removing Sally Rooney's novels

• PEN America sounds an alarm over "educational gag orders"

Excerpts 

• The Island Of Missing Trees

• The Sentence