Wordsmith Appreciator Gifts

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

Philip Larkin.

Charles Bukowski

William Makepeace Thackeray.

"They claim their wine is 'bottled poetry.' That means I'll never remember or appreciate it."

Kingsley Amis

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Campaign for Plain English

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Torturing the English Language

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

"Meet The Author"

"She's been so creative lately."

First Novels.

"Do me next."

Edgar Allen Poe

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

Backfire

"Let me slip into something a little more thoughtful."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Cut Price

Someone who knows apostrophes

Why we need poetry. . .

What's normal?

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

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