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

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

First Novels.

Herman Mankiewicz

Thomas Mann.

Reading my Critics

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

Lesser known greek gods,

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

"You'd think he hated music by the way he tortures it."

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

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

The Proust of Twitter

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

George Orwell

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

The World's Biggest Book Club

"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"