Fussy’s favorites: April 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 month. 

Controversies 

• The county that banned The Grapes of Wrath months after its release 

• Brooklyn Public Library expands online borrowing to all US teens 

• Patrons sue a Texas county over library book bans

Road trip time

• Meet Salt Lake City's "booktender" 

• Have you heard of the Planet Word Museum?

Bummer news 

• Sarah, Plain and Tall author Patricia MacLachlan has died 

• Study: Four times as many men as women appear in literature 

• Chicano author Rolando Hinojosa-Smith has died

National Poetry Month 

• Poet Colm Tóibín reads from his new collection, Vinegar Hill 

• Check out this new illustrated edition of Neruda's question poems

• George Harrison's widow has written a poetry collection about him

Earth Day 

• How Henry David Thoreau is contributing to science 

• These eco-themed books are getting a fresh look this summer 

Memorabilia

• Charity buys Charlotte Brontë's miniature book, will donate it

• R.L. Stine is stoked about his Goosebumps-themed sneakers

• A rare Harry Potter proof goes up for auction