Literary Mourner Mugs

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

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

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

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!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

The intellectual.

Iris Murdoch

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

"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.

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

Lord Byron

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

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

Litterary Dogs.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"