Book Advocates Gifts

"I would like a book."

"HR-bill 9495. Cutting down non-profits."

Victor Hugo

Reading my Critics

"I try to write a little bit every day."

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

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

'He was a great writer'

'We'd like to form a support group for homework anxiety.'

Tequila Mockingbird

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

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

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

'My manuscript is available for download on the internet. I'll email the link to you.'

So You've Cloned Yourself

Meet the author

"There goes our early night."

'Gifted class, indeed. One is gifted in science, but he can't read - one is gifted in reading, but won't even try math...'

"We'd like to publish it, do nothing to promote it, and watch it disappear from the shelves in less than a month."

'LOVELY school. But where's the library?' 'What's a library?'

"In this one, references to everything have been deleted."

Meet the author Billy Bovine.

"Did you ask for the large print edition?"

Learn yourself English.

Clara had come a long waw from those readings at the public library.

'Burke's B-list celebrities.'

"I love you, I'll follow you to the ends of the earth, but I'm through getting slippers for someone who hasn't published anything since 1997."

"Good evening. In today's top story, my book has jumped to Number Three on the best-seller list."

Book market

Boy carrying Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' for his mistress

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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