Children's Lit Lover Pillows

"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."

Distractions Of The Great

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

'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."

The intellectual.

Pastries and Candy

'Henrietta is so self-confident.'

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

Iris Murdoch

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

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

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

"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.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

Jacques et Jille

Lord Byron

Litterary Dogs.

I just reread a great book I downloaded from Amazon about five years ago. You rekindled an old relationship!

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.