Lit Critic Mugs

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

Blue Stockings

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

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

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

"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?"

George Orwell

The Proust of Twitter

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

The World's Biggest Book Club

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

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

Günter Grass

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

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

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

"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."

Is plagiarism the same as value adding?

Lord Byron

My Literary Influences