Literary Reviewer Mugs

"In my spare time, I write reviews on Goodreads."

Literary critics have a very special sense of humor.

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

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

"Meet The Author"

Thomas Mann.

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

First Novels.

'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.'

The Dorrie Decimal System

'He likes to power nap.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

Blue Stockings

"Now I really hate poetry."

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

German Expressionist Breakfast

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

John Bunyan

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

Distractions Of The Great

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

"Lautrec or Gary? Hmmm... We'll take Gary."

"Hey, it's not all fire and brimstone anymore—one of our nine circles is even smoke-free."

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe