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.
In this blunt, mocking, silly book, Levandoski (the author of a previous novel, "Going to Chicago") takes aim at standard targets -- hypocrisy, insensitivity, underhandedness.
His executors published it, and the Times wrote a supercilious review, not only mocking the book and the author but noting the fact that he'd never finished it.
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.
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.
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.
It gently mocks comic book conventions yet reminds us of what made comics so exciting.
The US critics who have mocked the book as a "diary dump" are right: whole sections seem to have been written by a man flicking through past appointment books, jotting down whatever he can remember.
