Literary Critique Gifts

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

"'Take that,' growled the writer as the buyer for Borders slumped to the ..."

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

"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.

Herman Mankiewicz

Thomas Mann.

Reading my Critics

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."

Shakespeare was bisexual

Lesser known greek gods,

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

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

"VP J.D. Vance called Donald: 'cynical asshole,' a 'moral disaster,' a 'total fraud,' an 'idiot,' and suggested he might be 'America’s Hitler.'"

The Proust of Twitter

"Oh, this old thing?"

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."

Man: 'How cute. He must like the movement.' Cat: 'There are some challenging themes here but little or no dramatic resonance.'

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

"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."

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

"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."

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."