Fussy’s favorites: Week of September 11, 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. 

Heartwarming words

• Meet the real-life (physical) inspiration for an American Girl book 

• Read a letter from John Steinbeck to his lovesick son

Special editions

• For sale: An autographed first-edition copy of The Catcher in the Rye 

• Folio from Persia's 11th-century Book of Kings is headed to auction 

Horror

• The Simpsons will parody Stephen King's It this Halloween 

• How book challenges and bans have changed over the decades

Expanded audiences

• Authors who revisited the famous sleuth share why they love Miss Marple 

• A novel written in the Uyghur language is now available in English