Literary Soiree Lover Gifts

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

'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."

Sloaney Pony.

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

The DaVinci Code

'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.'

Thomas Mann.

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Television Readers.

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

A vampire sitting on a park bench at night feeding bats.

1847 - Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula was born in Dublin.

Horti-Culture

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

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Robinson decided to name him 'Casual Friday'.

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.

Distractions Of The Great