Literary Loiterer Pillows

Reader's Block

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

"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.'

'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.'

The Bookworm

Reading my Critics

Jean-Paul Sartre

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Distractions Of The Great

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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

The intellectual.

Wasting away again in Cappuccinoville.

Iris Murdoch

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

Isabel Allende

"Chair looks couch potato friendly!"

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

"He just found that 'pillage' rhymes with 'village'."

Of Mice and Men.

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Litterary Dogs.

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"