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

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

"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."

"It's a play on words."

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

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

George Orwell

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

Ninedency: A budding tendency

The Proust of Twitter

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

Thomas Hardy

The World's Biggest Book Club

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

"It's felt to be his most thought provoking work."

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

"Nevermore." "You don't have to use 'air quoths' every time."

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