Fussy’s favorites: The first half of November 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 the past two weeks.

Obituaries

• Writer Julie Powell, of Julie & Julia fame, has died 

• Friend who appeared in Anne Frank’s diary has died

Dramatic releases

• Big UK booksellers are selling Harry's memoir at half-price 

• A new author is continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium series 

• Late musician Aaron Carter's unfinished memoir is coming out

Potpourri

• How your family dog can boost your child's reading skills 

• Can you identify these fictional writers? 

• Margaret Atwood has been banned from entering Russia

Literary history

• Researchers finally notice a 3,700-year-old inscription on a comb

• Preview a new work on the oldest surviving book in the Americas 

• The most borrowed book in Brooklyn Public Library history

Screen time 

• We're getting a modern and musical take on A Christmas Carol

• Watch the trailer for Lady Chatterley's Lover

• Slate's thoughts on the new All Quiet on the Western Front movie 

• Take a peek at the upcoming Kindred TV adaptation 

• Watch the first trailer for Netflix's The Lying Life of Adults

Excerpts and short stories

• Read an excerpt from Judy Blume's essay for Our Red Book

• Read an excerpt from Lucy Ellmann's Man or Mango?

• The short stories that inspired Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

• Read a short story by Annie Ernaux

• Read an excerpt of Rebecca Solnit's Waking Beauty

• Michelle Obama reads from The Light We Carry