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Philip Roth

A book titled 'Tales from the Crypto'.

'I find your whole story difficult to swallow,' Literary Agent.

The Tell-Tale Heart 2: Lost Phone On Vibrate

'We've updated our classics to fit in with the sort of childhood memoirs that sell nowadays.'

Mondrian art books arranged in the style of his paintings.

"Who's going to know I read this paragraph three times?"

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

"These are my leather-bound Hammacher Schlemmer catalogues."

The changing times of 'fame'.

'Do you have this in a smaller size?'

'I don't want to ruin it for you, but the ending is pretty obvious.'

'You stop buying books and I'll stop buying plants.'

"Oh, I've never actually read any of your books. . . I come to these hoping the author will pass away and the book will increase in value!"

The joy of sects.

"I'm sorry, Dave, but our marriage has lost its narrative flow."

"I'm impressed! Junior actually asked to use our old-fashioned dictionary!"

"Can any of you draw? I'm thinking we should move into children's books."

'Ordinarily we charge twenty five cents a week for overdue books, but I'm going to have to charge you a dollar for that one.'

The book that will not be denied!

A binding of booksellers

Richard Hughes.

3:00 PM MEET THE AUTHOR. . .

'And this book comes in shiny coffee-table-crisp or library-ready-pre-read and musty.'

Hard Choices by Hillary and Fools Rush In by Monica Lewinksy.

Large Print Book

Joseph Conrad

"Give me a sec, darling, I've nearly finished this chapter."

Steam of Consciousness

Cowboy reads book: 'The Joy of Tex'.

Somewhere In France... Mary Anne experiences that certain 'Je ne sais quoi'

Business Books: How to profit from authoritarianism.

Cold Comfort Books

"I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to hurt sales of my 'tell-all' book."