Literature Traveler Gifts

Try out this summer's hot novels in a beach setting

"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.

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

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

'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."

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

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

Thomas Mann.

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

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

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.'

The Bookworm

First Novels.

Victor Hugo

Reading my Critics

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Television Readers.

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

Voltaire

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

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

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Shakespeare was bisexual

Horti-Culture

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