Novel Critic Mugs

"Let's go on vacation, get disappointed, complain about prices, read terrible novels, buy trashy souvenirs, miss the dog and look forward to coming home."

"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

"Now I really hate poetry."

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

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

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

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

The Proust of Twitter

"Oh, this old thing?"

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Grimm's Reality Tales.

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

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."

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

"I want you to meet What's-His-Name, the much-misunderstood writer."

About the curriculum. The contemporary novel from Austen to Dickens...