Article: THE HYPE NEW YORK, NEW YORKER, IT'S A WONDERFUL 'TOON.(L.A. Life)

Every week, many of us paw through the New Yorker just to read the cartoons before we even get to that great literary stuff. Speaking of literary stuff, there's ``The New Yorker's Book of Literary Cartoons'' (Pocket Books; $19.95), which lets you combine the two.

Funny? All you have to do is imagine what a book called ``Hernia'' by Stephen King or the ``to do'' list on James Joyce's refrigerator would look like.

The magazine also turns its jaundiced eye toward the modern world with ``The New Yorker's Book of Technology Cartoons'' (Bloomberg Press; $24.95), which includes a CD-ROM of cartoons that can be sent as e-mail attachments (very digital of them). ...

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