Author Reading Today: 'Typos I missed when correcting proofs.'
Reading Critic Gifts
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"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
'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'
First Novels.
Thomas Mann.
Reading my Critics
"Now I really hate poetry."
'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'
Jean-Paul Sartre
Blue Stockings
Why we need poetry. . .
'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'
German Expressionist Breakfast
It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.
Shakespeare was bisexual
"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."
"And on the eighth day, God sat back with a scotch and soda and waited for the critical reviews."
"It turns out everyone here is self-published."
"Oh, this old thing?"
Dating an English Major
The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer
George Orwell
Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."
"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."
The Proust of Twitter
"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."
The World's Biggest Book Club
'It's cutting edge theatre.'
"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"
"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."
"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."
"It's felt to be his most thought provoking work."
"The moral of the story, honey, is that being a celebrity does not make you a credible children’s book author."
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