Literary Humor Gifts

"Frankenstein? Isn't the story of a being made from the parts of others a little far-fetched?" "I find it very believable."

'So you want an advance on your writer's block?'

"Yo, Eunice – don’t leave me hangin’."

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

"It says: 'The teamwork that got you here is the real treasure.' Aww."

"...You talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here... You talking to me?!" "Narcissus De Niro"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"A whack, whack here. A whack, whack there. Here a whack, there a whack. Everywhere a whack, whack."

"Puss in cement boots"

Multi-Generational Books

'Ms Simpson, I believe I've finally done it. I've written the Great American Memo.'

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

Local rock claims to have been muse for Emily Dickinson poem "I'm that 'little stone' honest to goodness!"

Meet the author - celebrity autobiographies,

Jack London

"He's very disciplined about his writing, every morning he stares at the keyboard for at least 4 hours before he allows himself a cup of tea!"

"I see you also took the road less travelled!"

Limerick On A Grecian Urn

'Neither a lender nor a borrower be.'

"I'm not angry, but in the future I’d prefer it if you chewed up her Sue Graftons, not my P.G. Wodehouses."

Kultural K9's.

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky plan a collaboration - 'War and Punishment'... it'll make us a bundle.

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

'Friends, lab rats, country mice, lend me your ears...'

Encyclopedic Novel Slam.

Hamlet in the craft shop.

"Hey team, meet our new V.P. of acquisitions and mergers." (businessman introducing a vicking, barbarian)

Apricots

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art though, Romeo? Seriously, wherefore art thou? Shakespeare in the Dark.

"I write mostly confessional non-fiction."

Earl suspends his disbelief.

All this pressure to be the perfect storm...

'Before we staqrt biting do you practice catch and release?'

"Beyond the fine starting salary, the job of a poet laureate at this corporation also carries with it an excellent medical and dental plan."

Medical Books - Lady Chatterley's Liver