Narrative Reveler Pillows

A Book Review of the Phone Book: A hefty paperback with too many characters and not enough plot development. Next week, we'll review a more complex work--your phone bill.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

Theorbo

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

Joust Sharpener

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

". . . I called this meeting to communicate that I had dinner Noah..."

Man commiting suicide finds the treasure at the bottom of the sea.

You're the olive in my martini

"I'm after the history section."

For the Wilsons, Gold Medalists Los Angeles '84, bathtime was always a ritual.

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

"Hendrickje, I feel another self-portrait coming on. Bring in the funny hats."

"It's a narrative I didn't intend."

"And Jasper, dear Jasper, with his soulful eyes and great sagging jowl, would be stretched upon the floor, his tail a-thump when he heard his master's footsteps." Penny loved Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

Ilyasah Shabazz

“I’ve got an idea for a story: Gus and Ethel live on Long Island, on the North Shore. He works sixteen hours a day writing fiction. Ethel never goes out, never does anything except fix Gus sandwiches and in the end she becomes a nympho-lesbo-killer-whore. Here’s your sandwich”

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

Reading room

Vitruvian Manatee

Jenga!!!

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

"Wait a minute. Where am I going? I'm a writer."

'Too many cliches? Now hold your horses!'

Galileo drops ball from Pisa and it goes up.

"I've found my voice, Penny. It's deep, wise, and compassionate."

Danae's Prescient Auto-Biography: '...My prescient autobiography is a publisher's dream...no need for fact-checking!'

Inspiration

"Woulda looked cool with a beer in his hand, though." Michelangelo's cousin, Michelobelo

Getting Published

"200,000 other people have also highlighted this passage of the E-book, you common idiot."

"Yee yee hee hee how how yip yip."