In a cartoon from 1998 titled "Nancy Drew Mysteries: The Later Years," a confused elderly woman appears on a mock book cover asking herself: "How did I gain eight pounds?
In Des Moines Tampaa, Fla.; Paducah, Ky., and at least 10 other cities, Mr. Obama is running a spot for a mock book, "Economics" by John McCain: "Support George Bush 95percentt of the time; keep spending $10 billion a month for the war in Iraq".
I saw this strange beast as a mock book: the homegrown equivalent of an exotic magic realist novel, with its territory and mixture of genres, its folk tales, songs and woodcuts drawn from England itself.
Let me note, then, that "One for the Books" is a shaggy specimen, and could have done without the mock Amazon reviews from previous centuries or the litany of fake Lincoln titles and Kinks autobiographies or the mock book-discussion questions.
Now in its 21st year, the AIDS/LifeCycle (formerly called the California AIDS Ride) is a true traveling circus, a movable tent city with checkpoints featuring kooky transvestite Cher impersonators, mock "Book of Mormon" elders spewing suggestive double-entendres, campy American Gladiator imitators, and full-on disco dance parties.
That may be some kind of progress, but this mock self-mocking book leaves a definite "going rogue" aftertaste — simultaneously winking and righteous, historically incurious, throwing in a little anti-cultural elitism and underdog sentimentality to flavor the stew.
Mr. Bowen's simple but sturdy songs provide a fine emotional backbone for Mr. Bell's wittily self-mocking book.
Landis Blair's image, "Go Read a Book," is the grand winner — chosen for how it gently mocks book readers — and was selected to be turned into a book bag.
These women who show up at his readings do it, it seems clear, to mock his books — clever, twisted, false books, empty of almost all that mattered, these women he had slept with are saying.
Small Media, the group behind the site, synthesizes decades of data from the country's official publishing record, the Iran Book House (IBH), into a mock e-book, broken up into introduction, chapters, and epilogue.
This mock reference book of imaginary right-wing litterateurs — including soccer-hooligans-cum poets and a sci-fi novelist who excitedly envisages Hitler's Reich triumphing in the United States — is every bit as fun as it sounds.
