Book Critique Mugs

"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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

Lesser known greek gods,

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

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Proust of Twitter

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

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

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

"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."

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

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

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

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

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