Literary Operator Pillows

Book surgery.

"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.'

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Bookworm

'Fine stencilling. But have you never thought - Tit Willow, Tit Willow, Tit Willow?'

'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.'

Reading my Critics

Felix Mendelssohn

Jean-Paul Sartre

Women's Bonnets Block the Audience View

"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

Deflator mouse

"Toi Toi Toi!"

"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.

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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

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

Iris Murdoch

"Bravo!"

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

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

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

Isabel Allende

Günter Grass

Your tiny hand is frozen...

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