Weekend reads: Week of November 15, 2024

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog last week but thought were worth sharing.

• A brief history of the most famous swear word in the world (Literary Hub)

• Who's really writing celebrity books? (Vulture)

• Maximizing your time for reading (Dividual)

• Japanese bookstores are renting space on shelves to authors (SCMP)

• Alice in Moominland (The New York Times)

• The secret of great graphic novel adaptations (Book Riot)

• The most unrealistic part of romance novels (Book Riot)