Literary Wanderer Gifts

'Can you tell me where James Herriot lives?'

Subway Library

“How was the beach?”

Book store entitled: 'Content & Things'.

Man with barking dog on lead sees Cheshire cat in tree.

Someone reading on an escalator.

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

'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."

'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 Bookworm

Reading my Critics

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

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Why can't you admit you're lost?'

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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

Iris Murdoch

The intellectual.

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

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

"Chair looks couch potato friendly!"

Jack London

“If I start pressing these, I’ll never ever ever get out of here.”

Meanwhile, in Florida: Little Free Library/Little Free Firearms

Isabel Allende