Literary History Lover Gifts

Louisa May Alcott

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

"Meet The Author"

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The DaVinci Code

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

The Dorrie Decimal System

'He likes to power nap.'

Servicemen.

Television Readers.

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Voltaire

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

Blue Stockings

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

"Now I really hate poetry."

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

"My novel is not a doorstop!"