Lyricist Critic Pillows

"Love the melody. . . but the lyrics need work!"

"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.

"Now I really hate poetry."

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

No Elgar!

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.

Dating an English Major

The Proust of Twitter

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

"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

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

'As I walk through the halls, I see teachers teaching and students learning and I say to myself, 'what wonderful school, what a wonderful world.''

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

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

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

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

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

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

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'