Book Festival Goer Pillows

"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."

Victor Hugo

Reading my Critics

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

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

Meet the author - celebrity autobiographies,

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

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

"There goes our early night."

Meet the author

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

'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."

Learn yourself English.

Meet the author Billy Bovine.

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

The Month of August

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

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

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

Book market

'Burke's B-list celebrities.'

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