Letter Aficionado Mugs

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

"Let's have a great capital campaign this year."

Pen Pals

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.'

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

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

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

"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."

'Junior's writing has improved. His letters from college pleading for more money, are froceful and flawlessly written.'

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

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

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

Ironing Punctuation

My Literary Influences

'I can hold a match to his notebook.'

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

'I think we're closing in on the missing calligrapher.'

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

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!'

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.

'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...'

Encyclopedic Novel Slam.

Friedrich Schiller

My Aunt's Left Hook Expels Uriah From The Chaise

Short story. Collected works. The Tolstoy gulp

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