Fussy’s favorites: August 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. 

Inspirational interviews 

• The novel that the writer's stroke couldn't thwart 

• Author Q&A: G.K. Brady 

• Author Q&A: Angela White 

• Author reunites with the teacher who taught him English

Bans and challenges 

• A Florida school district now has warning labels on certain books 

• There's hope yet for the defunded Michigan library 

• A Louisiana librarian has filed a lawsuit over online harassment 

• Texas school district removes the Bible from libraries 

• Why a Florida school district can't accept a donation of dictionaries 

• Oklahoma teacher: I was taken out of class for sharing a library link 

• Activists turn against Idaho town's library

Tech updates 

• Researchers unveil their progress on augmented-reality print books 

• The Serial Reader app wants to help you take your time with books

• Cambridge University is digitizing thousands of medieval cures

Obituaries 

• Acclaimed biographer and historian David McCullough has died 

• Writer and illustrator Raymond Briggs has died

• Le Petit Nicolas illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé has died

• Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer, has died

Potpourri

• Author Colleen Hoover's many secrets to success 

• Author Joanne Harris is the subject of two contrasting open letters

• Man arrested in attack on Salman Rushdie pleads not guilty

• A new collection of Jack Kerouac's writing comes out this year

The abridged versions 

• Read an excerpt of The Rabbit Hutch

• Read an excerpt from The Divider

• Read an excerpt of Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives 

• Read an excerpt from Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates