Poetic Critic Pillows

"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.

"Now I really hate poetry."

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

No Elgar!

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

No Parking - Scandal or No Scandal

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

Dating an English Major

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

The Proust of Twitter

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

"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

Passed over at the Inaugural Poetry Audition

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

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

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

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

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

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