Fussy’s favorites: Week of January 30, 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.

News of the weird 

• Who's buried under the tombstone of William Butler Yeats? 

• Feeding the fishes: Shipment of 2 cookbooks is lost at sea

Author interviews

• A chat with Fussy Librarian's Margaret Skea 

• Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob is now out in English

Publishing drama 

• Dutch publisher puts hold on more copies of The Betrayal of Anne Frank 

• Teacher's controversial memoir finds a new publisher 

Warming — and heartwarming — stories

• For sale: Arizona ranch that's home to a bookstore, too 

• Romani writers are translating Amanda Gorman into Hungarian

• Meet the writing (and marketing) wunderkind of Boise, Idaho 

• University of Reading receives huge donation of James Joyce papers

Bans and burnings 

• Stores, schools and others are making sure students can still read Maus

• Pastor hosts book-burning in Nashville suburb