Demonic Literary Critic Mugs

"In my spare time, I write reviews on Goodreads."

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

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

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

No Parking - Scandal or No Scandal

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

George Orwell

The Proust of Twitter

Dating an English Major

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

All Harold's aptitude test showed is that he had an aptitude for taking tests.

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

The World's Biggest Book Club

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

Günter Grass

"Nevermore." "You don't have to use 'air quoths' every time."

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

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

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

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

Lord Byron