Catching up on early March's book news

Fussy's been on the road quite a bit lately, so the RSS feeder is chock full of news that developed while we were gone.

Here's what caught our eyes ...

Serious stuff 

• Novelist Christopher Fowler has died aged 69 (The Guardian)

• Bestseller The Book of Animal Secrets has one more: plagarism (Literary Hub) 

• Publisher behind Xi biography released from China prison (ABC News)

Screen updates 

• TV review: Daisy Jones & The Six is too big to feel this small (Vulture)

• Watch the official trailer for Tiny Beautiful Things (YouTube)

Coming soon

• Haruki Murakami’s first novel in six years to hit stores in April (Associated Press)

• A new Zadie Smith novel is coming this fall (Literary Hub)

Comebacks 

• How Barnes & Noble turned a page, expanding for the first time in years (NPR)

• R.L. Stine responds to reports that Goosebumps books are getting edited (Deadline)