Baking With Kafka

"Tom Gauld cooks up clever cartoons that have everything to do with books and little to do with food. These satirical, bibliocentric comics, most of which first appeared in The Guardian, puncture current literary trends and pretensions. “Some Murder Methods for Modern Mystery Writers” include “strangled with smartphone charger cable” and “poisoned artisanal brioche.” My favorite promotional sticker for a novel: “occasionally putdownable.” And “My Library” is an instant one-panel classic, with color-coded spines to indicate whether the book has been read, half-read, is purely for show, or utterly unmemorable. This fun little book will surely avoid the grimmer fates."