Ebook Critic Mugs

"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

First Novels.

Thomas Mann.

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

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

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Proust of Twitter

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

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

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

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

About the curriculum. The contemporary novel from Austen to Dickens...

My Literary Influences