Fussy’s favorites: Week of February 13, 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.

Literature in the spotlight

• Proud bookworm caught on camera reading at the Super Bowl 

• Author Ottessa Moshfegh hits the runway

Now out (or soon to be) 

• Marlon James discusses his new novel, Moon Witch, Spider King

• New book: Tuberculosis should have taught us plague lessons 

• Artist's dream of an illustrated Ulysses becomes reality 

• Read an excerpt from The Man Who Tasted Words

Library licenses 

• Missouri and Tennessee are considering library ebook license bills 

• A mixed bag of library ebook license updates

The romance section 

• Actor Matthew Macfadyen dishes on being Mr. Darcy 

• Love books and Benedict Cumberbatch? You're in luck 

• Vintage valentines  

• How The Left Hand of Darkness teaches us to rethink romance