Literary Theorists Gifts

The Raven - The Study at Night

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

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

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

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

First Novels.

Thomas Mann.

"Now I really hate poetry."

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

"It's a play on words."

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

The Proust of Twitter

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

Ninedency: A budding tendency

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

Thomas Hardy

"Tracey, this is Gene. He also read the Nancy Reagan book in unbound galleys."

"I’ve seen better metaphors in my litter box."

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"The moral of the story, honey, is that being a celebrity does not make you a credible children’s book author."

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.