Noir Novel Lover Gifts

"You’re trying to take credit for one of mine."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Distractions Of The Great

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

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

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

The intellectual.

Iris Murdoch

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

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

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

Of Mice and Men.

Lord Byron

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

Litterary Dogs.

'Choose, Fenster

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"