基本信息出版社：It Books
页码：112 页
出版日期：2009年11月
ISBN：0061703664
International Standard Book Number：0061703664
条形码：9780061703669
EAN：9780061703669
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

内容简介

Reading may be dead, but books are alive and well

What good are books, you may be wondering, if we're not going to read them? What are we even doing in this bookstore? Not to worry! It turns out that there are literally thousands of things to do with these chunky stacks of bound tree pulp. Fun, exciting, adventurous, creative things. In fact, this familiar rectangular object suddenly offers enough dazzling new interactive possibilities to, yes, fill a book. This book. From re-creating world wonders to settling marital disputes, entertaining dinner guests to channeling your inner secret agent, here are fifty wonderfully zany things to do with all your favorite books.

作者简介

Bruce McCall's written and illustrated satire is a familiar part of the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other major publications, and he has published two books of collected humor, Zany Afternoons and All Meat Looks like South America, as well as a memoir of growing up Canadian, Thin Ice. McCall has also just published his first children's book, Marveltown. He lives in New York City.

媒体推荐 "...revelatory in its demonstration of just how many purposes a book might have." (Los Angeles Times, Jacket Copy Blog )

"Bruce McCall, whose satire in The New Yorker is always entertaining, has outdone himself." (Boston Globe )