Fussy’s favorites: Week of May 22, 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.

Challenges

• Bookstore pressure in the US and abroad 

• Bid on a fireproof version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Bestsellers of note 

• Sales of cancer activist's book skyrocket as she enters hospice 

• The pandemic-lockdown project now on a NYT bestseller list

Tales of the weird

• A 1698 book discussing extraterrestrial life has been discovered

• "How to Murder Your Husband" author is found guilty in spouse's death 

Library news

• Rhode Island's library ebook bill heads to the full Senate 

• The classic author who literally left his mark on the London Library

Awards 

• Congrats to the winners of the 57th Annual Nebula Awards 

• Meet the finalists for the Firecracker Awards 

• The three writers on TIME's 100 most influential people list for 2022 

• The Art of Losing wins the Dublin Literary Award