Fussy’s favorites: Late November and early December

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our reader blog the past two weeks.  

In the hot seat ... 

• Authors rally behind Sally Rooney's pro-Palestinian stance 

• J.K. Rowling's house appears in pictures of a transgender-rights protest 

• Author Alice Sebold apologizes to the man exonerated in her rape

.. and in the courtroom  

• Tolkien estate puts an end to the cryptocurrency dubbed JRR Token

• Ex-defense secretary sues for the release of his memoir 

Word games 

• Why a 1934 murder-mystery book is selling out 

• Collins Dictionary chooses "NFT" as its 2021 Word of the Year 

• "Vaccine" is Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2021

Literature and academia

• Meet the first robot poet to publicly perform its work 

• About the "terrifying" job of preserving a 1,200-year-old psalm book 

Pens and politics

• Official report: Former NY Gov. Cuomo made state staff work on his memoir 

• Two prominent political candidates are also bestselling authors

Reshelved 

• 2 books with LGBTQ+ themes are back in a Kansas City school library

• Book checked out in 1910 makes its way back to Boise library