Fussy’s favorites: Week of September 4, 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. 

Awards galore 

• Congrats to the 2022 Hugo Award winners 

• Meet the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist 

• Congratulations to the 2022 Kirkus Prize finalists

Goodbyes 

• Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich has died

• Literary obituaries: Sterling Lord and Peter Straub 

Content controversy  

• 5 in Hong Kong convicted of producing seditious children's books

• Long reads on book bans across the US 

Political books 

• Read about (and from) A.M. Homes's The Unfolding 

• NPR obtains one of the recalled copies of 2000 Mules