Book Critiquers Prints

"What this book lacks in content it more than makes up for in the reflective quality of its pages."

"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."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

George Orwell

The Proust of Twitter

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

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

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

The World's Biggest Book Club

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

Günter Grass

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

"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."

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

Is plagiarism the same as value adding?

My Literary Influences

Lord Byron