Fussy’s favorites: Week of January 2, 2022

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 Year's traditions

• Libraries unveil the most-checked-out books of 2021 

• Now in the public domain in the United States ... 

• Archives: Nobel judges were leery of Pablo Neruda's politics 

Screen time 

• Reviewers applaud The Lost Daughter and the Harry Potter reunion 

• Keanu Reeves might star in The Devil in the White City series

• TV rights for The School for Good Mothers have already sold

Fun and games

• The pranks that J.R.R. Tolkien famously pulled 

• Rare Hulk comic sells for almost half a million dollars

Trad-pub updates 

• Son: Publisher didn't cancel Norman Mailer's essay collection

• Simon & Schuster employee arrested in yearslong book theft scheme