Book Critique Gifts

"You call this literature?"

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

Blue Stockings

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

Lesser known greek gods,

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

The Proust of Twitter

George Orwell

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

"Tracey, this is Gene. He also read the Nancy Reagan book in unbound galleys."

"I’ve seen better metaphors in my litter box."

"The moral of the story, honey, is that being a celebrity does not make you a credible children’s book author."

"Nevermore." "You don't have to use 'air quoths' every time."

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

Günter Grass

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

The World's Biggest Book Club

"It's felt to be his most thought provoking work."

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."