Purring Prose Lover Mugs

Lady Chatterley's Lover

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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.'

"Meet The Author"

'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

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

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

John Bunyan

Distractions Of The Great

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

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

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

"I'm still looking for the lap of luxury."

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

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

Dating an English Major

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Iris Murdoch

The intellectual.

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

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

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

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