12 Charles Dickens Characters Who Are Handling the Current Socioeconomic Climate Just Fine
Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) – Not just surviving, but THRIVING. Has gone from billionaire to trillionaire during all this.
Tag: Books
The Count of Monte Cristo Would Like to Discuss His Many Interests That Aren’t Revenge
I hear my quest for vengeance described as “single-minded,” and I can’t help but resent that.
The Ten Steamiest Passages from Guy Fieri’s Upcoming Autobiographical Romance Novel
She was slathered, head to toe, in Russian dressing, and I was ready to eat at Moscow’s most exclusive restaurant: Flavortown.
Censorship Is Preventing Me from Publishing My Novel “Rat Sex in Outer Space”
Brave ideas drowned in a sea of silence. That’s a direct quote from "Rat Sex in Outer Space" and it applies here.
Hemingway Novels Retitled to Boost Website Traffic
The Old Man and the Sea: Old Men LOVE Fishing but Hate Shark Week in the Gulf Stream!
What Critics Are Saying About My Debut YA Novel “The Altitude Between Us”
“With monotonous passages that seem to drone on and on, it felt at a certain point like the author himself had switched to auto-pilot.”
Andrei Platonov’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
“We must hide his nonconformity,” said Donner as he rubbed his son’s nose with mud. “Pa, I don’t want to!” “Just endure, Rudolph.”
Hallo Children, It’s Struwwelpeter from Your Nightmares, and I’m Here to Address My Alleged Filthiness
Edward Scissorhands is a revered cultural icon and I'm just a smelly, obscure German freak. The hypocrisy is unreal.
World Literature Summarized for the Post-Coronavirus Reader
"The Great Gatsby" (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925): A man who has made an absurd amount of money throws huge, unlawful parties at his estate. People die.
Franz Kafka’s Bar Mitzvah Speech
The theme of my Bar Mitzvah is “Lying awake at night, your face slick with sweat, drowning in a pool of your own despair.”
Pride and Prejudice and COVID
Netherfield is taken by a Mr. Bingley, a young man of large fortune; that he fled from Texas’ COVID surge in his Tesla Model X.
More Books Obama Read to Impress Women
De Beauvoir and Goethe for the cottagecore lesbian desperately in love with her best friend. Byron and Žižek for the pervert with a heart of gold.