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.

"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.'

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

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

The intellectual.

Iris Murdoch

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

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

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

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

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

"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.'

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

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

Of Mice and Men.

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

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Litterary Dogs.

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

Lord Byron

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

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)

"I think I see your deadline approaching."