American Novels Pillows

Leon Uris.

John Updike.

"What did you say about the health of my gut biome?"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Talk, Wallace - where'd you hide the loot?"

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

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

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

Thomas Hardy

The Philip Marlow family

'I'm sure that the autopsy will confirm it was a suicide.'

'Mark my word, Walters, this is no ordinary virus.'

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

Don Quixote

"Ok, I found a secure line."

About the curriculum. The contemporary novel from Austen to Dickens...

The lonely figure

"You're not grandma at all! In fact, I think this is a case of identity theft!"

"What'd you think the zipper on my face was for?"

My Aunt's Left Hook Expels Uriah From The Chaise

Bram Stoker

"Say, Chief, any progress on the pencil case?"

Mark Twain

The Portrait of Dorian Gray after one year in lockdown.

"You're incredibly tight."

Dog detectives

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

"Damn it—I told them I was too well known for undercover work!"

Louis L'Amour hones his craft.

Mafia Family Life: 'I'm sorry dear - but I had to bring some work home!'

"I'm sorry, sir, but Dostoyevsky is not considered summer reading. I'll have to ask you to come with me."