Ebook Critic Gifts

'Lost your kindle in the cab? Try my outdated destined-for-extinction, low-priced print edition.'

"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.

"Now I really hate poetry."

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

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

The Proust of Twitter

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

George Orwell

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

Günter Grass

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

The World's Biggest Book Club

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

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

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

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

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

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

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

My Literary Influences

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