Press
REVIEWS AND MENTIONS
“Brilliant/Highbrow” — New York magazine’s Approval Matrix
Bench Pick — The New Yorker, The Book Bench
“[O]ne of the funniest and wittiest books I’ve read in years, and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves literature” — Curled Up With a Good Book
“Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook is the most ingenious and entertaining book about classic literature that I have ever read” — BookLoons.com
“[Schmelling’s work is] ROFL funny” — Tulsa World
“Juliet Is Romeo’s Fangirl, and Other LOL Things We Learned From Sarah Schmelling” — Flavorwire
“A rather deft parody of the Internet’s current social-media powerhouse” — Bookgasm
“[If you like] Facebook, MySpace, classic literature, or making fun of every book you had to read in high school, you’ll love reliving these tomes through the Internet prism” — The Baltimore Sun’s Read Street
“Tech-savvy book nerds unite!” “A hilarious “what if” proposition” — Schuler Books
“Even if you don’t have a Facebook page or only read Cliff Notes, this clever send up of both media realms provides laughs a-plenty for all concerned” — Living Read Girl
“[A] uniquely 21st Century tome” — Mediabistro’s GalleyCat
“Cerebral comedy doesn’t come much better then this, but be forewarned, reading this might cause you to start dusting off and revisiting some of those time honored classics” — Monsters and Critics
INTERVIEWS
MULTIMEDIA
Mediabistro.com’s Morning Media Menu
Open Book with Diana Page Jordan
VIDEO: C-SPAN’s Book TV
2009 Brooklyn Book Festival: Literature in a Digital Age panel, with The New York Times’ Dwight Garner, Granta’s John Freeman and author Sarah Schmelling, moderated by Maud Newton.