Clever Things to Say » literature http://cleverthingstosay.com by Miles K Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:13:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Top Ten Dr. Suess Books Adapted for the Elderly http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/12/03/dr-suess/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-suess http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/12/03/dr-suess/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:42:02 +0000 admin http://www.cleverthingstosay.com/?p=695
  • Horton Hears a What? a Who!?
  • Green Eggs and Ham, that We Ate During the Depression
  • How the Liberal Media Stole Christmas
  • Horton Hatches the Egg That Never Calls Him Back
  • Oh the Places You Will Never See Again
  • The Cat in the Hat, that We Ate During the Depression
  • Fox in Argyle Socks
  • Hop on Pop: How Youngsters Do Not Respect the Elderly
  • Help! There’s Some Sort of Wocket in My Pocket!
  • And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry- Hey Where You Going?
    • ]]>     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/12/03/dr-suess/feed/ 1     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/11/03/630/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=630 http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/11/03/630/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:15:23 +0000 admin http://www.cleverthingstosay.com/630/ There’s nothing romantic about being a writer. Its labor is undertaken in solitude and its fruits are usually enjoyed in the same manner.

     

    ]]>     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/11/03/630/feed/ 0     The One Liner Literary Critic Vol. 1 http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/09/17/the-one-liner-literary-critic-vol-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-one-liner-literary-critic-vol-1 http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/09/17/the-one-liner-literary-critic-vol-1/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:00:49 +0000 admin http://www.cleverthingstosay.com/?p=531 A curmudgeonly hybrid of book review and one liner stand up comedian:

    “In 1957 Kurt Vonnegut wrote a groundbreaking novel, he then proceeded to write it again twelve more times.”

    “Tom Wolfe’s latest book would be best committed to a bonfire of the vanities”

    “Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a touching memoir of a sensitive young man’s journey from youth to adulthood, which is great because I love a book about pussies.”

    ]]>     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/09/17/the-one-liner-literary-critic-vol-1/feed/ 0     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/05/27/357/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=357 http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/05/27/357/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 17:06:36 +0000 admin http://www.cleverthingstosay.com/357/ Metaphors are a doorway made from language leading out.

    ]]>     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/05/27/357/feed/ 0     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/04/27/302/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=302 http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/04/27/302/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:26:17 +0000 admin http://www.cleverthingstosay.com/302/ When I’m reading and someone interrupts I tell them that I am in the middle of a sentence. Five minutes later when they begin to get impatient I tell them that it’s Faulkner.

    ]]>     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/04/27/302/feed/ 0     http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/03/23/the-new-barbarism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-barbarism http://cleverthingstosay.com/2009/03/23/the-new-barbarism/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:16:07 +0000 admin http://www.cleverthingstosay.com/?p=179 Anyone who calls my work barbaric has never had their head split in half with an axe.

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