Children's Lit Lover Mugs

"So then Mr. Brewster, who was a cost analyst for an advertising agency, drove his car all the way from Westport, Connecticut, to New York City!"

"What the hell story is this from?"

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Distractions Of The Great

'Tell us the story of Moses again -- I like the chase scene!'

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"Finally, the alphabet is paying off."

Iris Murdoch

'Henrietta is so self-confident.'

The intellectual.

Pastries and Candy

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

'Am I looking sad or happy in the appropriate places?'

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

Of Mice and Men.

Litterary Dogs.

Jacques et Jille

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Lord Byron

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

'Greetings and welcome to my new play called 'King Lear.' It's about delegation, succession, and decentralization.'