Purring Prose Lover Pillows

Lady Chatterley's Lover

"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."

"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.'

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

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

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Distractions Of The Great

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

John Bunyan

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

'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

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Stephen Spender.

The intellectual.

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

Dating an English Major

"Oh, this old thing?"

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

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

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

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

Iris Murdoch

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

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy