Romance Critic Gifts

"I married you for your money, Leonard. Where is it?"

Cupid Kills

"I'm not really a handsome prince. I just fancied a good snog."

Humpty Dumpty on Lover's Leap.

"He's my financee."

"Isn't this all a bit derivative?"

"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

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Blue Stockings

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

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

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

The Proust of Twitter

George Orwell

Dating an English Major

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

The World's Biggest Book Club

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

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

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

Günter Grass

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

"Nevermore." "You don't have to use 'air quoths' every time."

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."