Literary Mourner Gifts

Bookshop: Closed, Coming Soon Here Internet Cafe.

"We're disbanding the book club and canceling the fundraiser so we can grieve for six months. It's what Irene would have wanted."

"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.'

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Bookworm Sleepover

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

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

Distractions Of The Great

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

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

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

Iris Murdoch

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

The intellectual.

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

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

"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."

Of Mice and Men.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

"If you saw a book with the title 'An American Speaks Out,' would you buy it?"

Lord Byron

Litterary Dogs.

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

I just reread a great book I downloaded from Amazon about five years ago. You rekindled an old relationship!