Casting aside all caution, this reviewer hereby pronounces this book a necessity for every person who fancies madcap humor. Playwright and novelist Miller (My Life in Action Painting) offers some of the most adroit and exhilarating, not to mention irreverent, parody since Max Beerbohm, and that is high praise indeed. Unless you are an austere soul who cannot abide seeing some of your favorite authors made sport of, you will laugh outright as the idiosyncratic writing styles and mannerisms of 45 dissimilar literary celebrities-such as Hemingway, Salinger, Updike, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, J. K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, and E. Annie Proulx-are evoked and captured through imitation, exaggeration, and horseplay. When he is on target, and he usually is, Miller is unbeatable-funny and true. The most exigent opera bouffe fan could hardly ask for more.-A.J. Anderson, Simmons Coll., Boston (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.