Fussy’s favorites: Week of July 10, 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. 

On the odder side

• "The Futurist Cookbook" wasn't so far off after all 

• Check out (or audition for) a writing reality show 

• Model whose career was launched with a mugshot is writing a memoir

legal

• Delia Owens is still wanted for questioning in a 1995 murder in Zambia 

• Will the man charged in hundreds of book-draft thefts skip trial?

A word after a word after a word is power 

• Authors launch an auction to benefit reproductive access

• The real story behind (and consequences of) Go Ask Alice

Cause for celebration

• Ada Limón is our next poet laureate 

• Dive into the Malian manuscripts saved from jihadists 

Library updates

• A new online collection: Items found in Oakland Public Library's books 

• An Iowa library can't keep enough staff to stay open