Fussy’s favorites: Week of May 9, 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 last week.

Hollywood 

• Into the world of celebrity book stylists 

• Rick Riordan calls out readers complaining about Percy Jackson casting 

• Henry Winkler is working on a memoir

Authors under fire

• Why the essay "I Plagiarized Parts of My Debut Novel" disappeared quickly 

• Review of book about medieval Europe becomes a Twitter battleground 

• The questionable authorship of Angle of Repose 

• Idaho school district bans over twenty books from its library

The kids are alright

• They may be underground, but these Afghan girls are still reading 

• More young people are becoming rare-book collectors

Potpourri

• Q&A: Karina McRoberts

• Bookstore owner wants Harriet Tubman to have a federal holiday 

• Have Dracula delivered to your inbox, one passage at a time 

• Public libraries are still helping patrons grow their love of nature