Posted on July 28, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
It's summertime and Fussy staffers are on the go — enjoy these Literary Hub posts from (mostly) the past week.
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This Sunday is Paperback Book Day — the anniversary of the day that the first Penguin paperback was published in England — so in advance of this milestone, learn about the first bestselling paperback original in the US.
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The Academy of American Poets announced its 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows on Tuesday; the twenty-three honorees receive $50,000 each, plus matching grants from local nonprofit organizations.
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Olivia Luna Eldritch shares author H.P. Lovecraft's preferred recipe for Boston baked beans, in an excerpt from her book Recipes from the World of H.P. Lovecraft.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow graciously declined Edgar Allan Poe's invitation to submit a monthly piece to the journal where Poe worked, something that the latter didn't forget or forgive — Anne Whitehouse summarizes the Little Longfellow War that ensued.
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And finally, in the spirit of BookRiot's posts about children's books, here's a list of weird, funny, and dark kids' books worth reading as an adult.
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