Prose Lover Gifts

Slow reading institute - learn to enjoy adjectives, metaphors, alliteration again.

John Bunyan and Alfred Deakin

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

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

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

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

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Meet The Author"

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

The DaVinci Code

Thomas Mann.

Victor Hugo

'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.'

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Television Readers.

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.

Distractions Of The Great

Shakespeare was bisexual

A vampire sitting on a park bench at night feeding bats.

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

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.