Kindle Critic Gifts

"What a Luddite! I bought him a Kindle, but he'll only read hard copy."

"A book is kind of like a paper Kindle."

"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.

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

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

George Orwell

"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?"

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

The Proust of Twitter

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

Günter Grass

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

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

The World's Biggest Book Club

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

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

"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."

'Choose, Fenster