Fussy’s favorites: Week of June 5, 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. 

Literary trends

• The changing world of Hollywood book deals 

• Why Anton Chekhov is the "it" playwright and writer 

• Americans were just as word-game-crazy a hundred years ago

The TBR pile 

• Celebrity book club picks for June 2022 (with a bonus list)

• Reading recommendations for 2022's Pride Month

• Youth poet laureate's debut novel is Oprah's new book club pick 

• 2 unreleased stories from Shirley Jackson are now out

Real-life drama 

• Read an excerpt from The Woman Beyond the Attic

• Passages from Nobel laureate's work end up in someone else's novel

Screen time

• Adaptation of "impossible to film" novel hitting some obstacles 

• James Patterson pokes fun at himself on "Late Night With Seth Meyers"