Reading Critic Mugs

Author Reading Today: 'Typos I missed when correcting proofs.'

"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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Blue Stockings

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

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 turns out everyone here is self-published."

"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."

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

The Proust of Twitter

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."

Dating an English Major

"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."

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

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

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

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

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

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

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

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"