A small, excitable woman with large glasses, Chast is arguably the greatest living practitioner of a minor art, that of the magazine cartoon, and her work is now collected in a very large book ...

I'm drawing a different literary mouse. This is Stuart Little from one of the first books I remember my mom ... raised eyebrows, glasses, of course. Experimental facial hair.

I write about books, publishing, authors and readers Why ... There’s a cupcake, a footprint, a spear, martini glasses, a fancy necklace, a broken strand of pearls, and more.

And, of course, book banning. Why? Because people are finally starting to see the world clearly. When I first got my glasses at age 13, in the beginning it truly felt like it was too much.