Book Festival Goer Gifts

"I sort of imagined with a live reading, he'd be reading out loud."

"Meet the author"

"Tonight! Author book signing." "Develop your inner raging bitch."

Reading my Critics

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

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

Meet the author - celebrity autobiographies,

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

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

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

"Regarding the plot of your novel ... what on earth were you thinking?"

'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.'

The Running of the Brie

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)

So You've Cloned Yourself

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"There goes our early night."

"Do you think Trump has read 'Contemporary Relativism and the Death of Meaning'?"

Meet the author

'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."

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

Meet the author Billy Bovine.

Learn yourself English.

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

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

Book market

'Burke's B-list celebrities.'

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

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

The Month of August

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

"We thought about a restaurant and decided we were more of a bookstore."