Lyricist Critic T-Shirts

"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.

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

No Elgar!

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

German Expressionist Breakfast

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

Dating an English Major

"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?"

George Orwell

The Proust of Twitter

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

'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.''

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

Günter Grass

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

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

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

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

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

The World's Biggest Book Club

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