Literary Analysis Mugs

"The tone of the letter is stern, almost threatening, but - see here? - he signs with a smiley face, so I think we may be alright."

Book publishing.

"Oh my goodness. My lecture on John Donne has just been awarded Most Pizzazzy Metaphysical Lecture of the Year."

Son of Howl

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"That's it?! Boy exploits tree, tree suffers? Shel Silverstein was nuts!"

"Now I really hate poetry."

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Invisible Man for All Seasons

Little Women in Love in the Time of Cholera

"I marked the sections where your total contempt for humanity loses its pathos."

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

Algernon Swinburne

'can you breath some life into this?'

Raymond Queneau

Amos Oz

Paul Beatty

"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.

The Bookworm

Thomas Mann.

Reading my Critics

Jean-Paul Sartre

Blue Stockings

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."

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"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."