Weekend reads: Week of July 9, 2023

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't have a chance to share on our reader blog this week.

• Was What Women Want based on Chaucer? (Literary Hub)

• Re(introducing) The Napkin Project (Esquire)

• How an untested, cash-strapped TV show about books became an American classic (Los Angeles Times)

• 48 chaotic hours with Colleen Hoover (TIME)

• 'Every writer's deepest fear': What happened when I gave a book talk completely nude (The Guardian)

• Dear romance publishers: Please give us hardcovers (BookRiot)