The comic above, which we’ve borrowed from The New York Times Book Review, was headlined there, “Day Jobs: What your favorite writers might have done if they hadn’t written.”

How many books and authors can you identify in this drawing? Hint: it’s not just the signs that are allusion to literature. Which jokes can you explain?

Tell us what you notice and like best about this piece, then see it as it originally appeared in The New York Times Book Review.

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