Fussy’s favorites: Week of January 1, 2023

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. 

Blasts from the past

• New Year's advice from bygone bestselling self-help books

• These works from 1927 are now in the public domain 

• Latest movie version of Dracula brings a new viewpoint

Law & order

• Lifetime has made a movie about a novelist convicted of murder 

• Man pleads guilty in years-long scheme to steal book drafts

Big-name books

• Longtime secretary has written a book on Pope Emeritus Benedict 

• The Guardian lands a copy of Spare ahead of its release date

• Supreme Court Justice Jackson is writing a memoir