Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.