Essay Aficionado Gifts

James Baldwin.

Edgar Allen Poe

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

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

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Stephen Spender.

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Gunter Grass

Günter Grass

"No chips, but I did snag the new Hiaasen."

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

Noel Coward.

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

'What I did on my summer vacation: I wrote about what I had done the rest of the year.'

My Literary Influences

'I can hold a match to his notebook.'

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

Ironing Punctuation

Tesseract of the D'Urbervilles.

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

Encyclopedic Novel Slam.

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

LIBRARY, 'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

How a poet works

Don't you see, Kreutzer? That's why we have all this literature. So you won't duplicate an experiment that's already been done, and there's no reason at all why you should be duplicating Smedly's experiments. After all, he shares a lab with you.

Friedrich Schiller

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'