Lyrical Critic Pillows

"I'm composing a song for the new administration. It's entitled, 'Hell to the chief'."

"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

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

Reading my Critics

"Now I really hate poetry."

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

No Elgar!

German Expressionist Breakfast

"And on the eighth day, God sat back with a scotch and soda and waited for the critical reviews."

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

"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.

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

The Proust of Twitter

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

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

"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."

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

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

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

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

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