Books
There have been eight cartoon anthologies of This Modern World published:
- Greetings From This Modern World (1992)
- Tune in Tomorrow (1994)
- The Wrath of Sparky (1996)
- Penguin Soup for the Soul (1998)
- When Penguins Attack (2000) (Introduction by Dave Eggers)
- The Great Big Book of Tomorrow (2003)
- Hell in a Handbasket: Dispatches from the Country Formerly Known as America (March 2006)
- The Future's So Bright I Can't Bear to Look (September 2008)
- Too Much Crazy (Late 2010/1 Jan 2011)
The anthologies were published by St. Martin's Press until Hell in a Handbasket, when Perkins switched to Tarcher. The Future's So Bright I Can't Bear to Look was published by Nation Books.
The Very Silly Mayor, a picture book for children aged 4–8, was published in September 2009 by Ig Publishing.
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Famous quotes containing the word books:
“Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“All ... forms of consensus about “great” books and “perennial” problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of “what is already known.” Those great books don’t only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
—Victor Null, South African educator, psychologist. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, introduction, Yale University Press (1988)