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This exuberant collection of cartoons is an enthusiastic love letter to books and bookstores. The cartoons celebrate and critique the literary world through the work of thirty-three of the masters of cartoon art, including Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Arnie Levin, Danny Shanahan, Peter Steiner, Mick Stevens, Nick Downes, Liza Donnelly, Bob Mankoff, and Michael Maslin. Many of the cartoons have been published in the New Yorker , while others are published here for the first time.

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Bob Eckstein is an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer whose work frequently appears in the New Yorker , the New York Times , and MAD magazine. He is author of Footnotes from the World´s Greatest Bookstores , and his work has been exhibited in the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, the Cartoon Museum of London, and the Smithsonian Institute.

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