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.

The best and most acclaimed New Yorker cartoonists (who enthusiastically agreed and would be willing to support such a title after publication) provide cartoons celebrating and critiquing the literary world. Cartoonist include: Sam Gross, Peter Steiner, Mick Stevens, Nick Downes, Michael Maslin, Liza Donnelly, Bob Mankoff, Roz Chaz.