Modern Literature Analyst Mugs

Sensitivity Reader's Digest

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"Now I really hate poetry."

Audio Books

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

'E-books?'

Atlas with the earth, says: 'So then I thought, Why not just roll the damn thing?'

Book publishing.

James Joyce.

"Oh my goodness. My lecture on John Donne has just been awarded Most Pizzazzy Metaphysical Lecture of the Year."

Book Worm

'Ach, Herr Scrooge - ghost of this, ghost of that...serious delusions.'

'An alternative to having me psychoanalyze you is to write a book and have the critics do it.'

'can you breath some life into this?'

James Joyce

'And that one is the mistake I made in Act II, Scene III, line 14 of Hamlet.'

"Today we will focus on how the author makes the same exact complaints about here life, from her sixth birthday and on."

"I love it when you quote my blog back to me."

"Seventy-five isn't the new anything."

'I wandered lonely as Wayne Rooney playing up front for England.'

'Okay, one more blog about the meaning of 'Alice in Wonderland' and then off to sleep.'

James Joyce

'The students in my contemporary literature class are quoting from deejay Baby Puff Dragon. I have no idea what they're talking about.'

Raymond Queneau

"Hey everyone, it's day three and I'm still going strong."

Randy, if you were stranded on an island, what's the one book you'd want to have along with you? Easy: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. It's got the perfect heft to knock coconuts out of trees. Well, I'd like to have How to Get off an Island, by Archie MacGuyver. That title's actually a metaphor for overcoming shyness. We really should have our own book review show.

Paul Beatty

Algernon Swinburne

The Great Chemical Novel.

"That's it?! Boy exploits tree, tree suffers? Shel Silverstein was nuts!"

"If you think you've earned this by consistently retweeting my tweets -- you're right."

Expanding Minds

'I read your last book. . . at least I hope it was your last book.'

Mr. Pecksniff discharges a duty which he owes to society

Under the microscope