American Novel Buff Gifts

Saul Bellow

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

I should be a writer when I grow up...

Victor Hugo

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Mann.

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

Honoré de Balzac

Television Readers.

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

German Expressionist Breakfast

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

Silence of the Chickens...

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

John Bunyan

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

Audio Books

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

Sock Puppet in Literature

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Iris Murdoch

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

Myths and legends...