Romantic Critics Pillows

'May the groom kiss the bride?'

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Science of Love

First Novels.

Thomas Mann.

Blue Stockings

"Now I really hate poetry."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

German Expressionist Breakfast

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

Shakespeare was bisexual

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

Dating an English Major

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

"And now, a little theorem for all you lovers out there."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

Beckett for Beginners: "Waiting for Thumbkin"

"I do have a special someone, but he sucks."

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

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

"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."

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

"I want you to meet What's-His-Name, the much-misunderstood writer."