Clerical Critic Pillows

'Transistional Pope. Is that nice way of saying they hope he doesn't live too long?'

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

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

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

Reading my Critics

Blue Stockings

"Now I really hate poetry."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

"And on the eighth day, God sat back with a scotch and soda and waited for the critical reviews."

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

The Proust of Twitter

George Orwell

"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."

Günter Grass

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

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

"I’ve seen better metaphors in my litter box."

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

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

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

The World's Biggest Book Club

"The moral of the story, honey, is that being a celebrity does not make you a credible children’s book author."

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"