Literary Partner Gifts

"It happened at a book burning. It was one of those books I couldn't put down."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'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.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

"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!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

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."

Thomas Hardy

Euripides: 'If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.'

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."

'Out, damned Spot.'

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

A sign that reads "ART...and plenty of it!" hangs above the entrance to a museum.

Of Mice and Men.

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Lord Byron

Litterary Dogs.

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

'Greetings and welcome to my new play called 'King Lear.' It's about delegation, succession, and decentralization.'

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)

"I think I see your deadline approaching."